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CONTENTS On the Cover As waterfowl become a greater nuisance, Lake Junaluska decided to ban a popular pastime — duck and geese feeding. (Page 6)

News Franklin leaders approve low-income housing plan ..........................................4 Developer hopes to benefit from Cullowhee housing crunch ........................8 WCU treads cautiously in light of record enrollment..........................................8 UNC system to change to merit-based funding model ....................................9 Opry House struggles to stay relevant ..............................................................10 Teachers chose whether to continue cursive lessons......................................13 Landfill becomes monthly revenue stream for county ....................................14 Haywood County looks at refinancing debt ......................................................14 Haywood library late fees increase ....................................................................14 Sonoco Plastics begins multi-million expansion ................................................14 Tribal council approves Cherokee adventure park idea ..................................17 Cherokee leaders wade into commission salary discussion ........................17 Smoky Mountain High to get new gym, auditorium ........................................18

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Low-income apartments to make a dent in affordable housing shortage in Macon Martin Riley Associates rendering

The Flatiron group reported that about 40 percent of the county’s population would meet those criteria. In Macon County, the median income for a family of four is $53,000 so only a family of four making about $31,000 or less would qualify. A single person making less than $22,000 per year would qualify.

Fitch’s group has proposed a host of affordable apartment complexes that capitalize on the low-income housing credits across North and South Carolina and Virginia. Some of them get built, but some are rejected by the community where they are proposed, and others don’t get the competitive tax credits.

Although some low-income housing companies are not-for-profit, the Flatiron group is.

the complex. He pointed toward the 11 percent unemployment rate in Macon County and the decline in the construction industry.

Last year, there were 79 percent fewer building permits issued in Macon County than in 2007 before the market crashed. In a county where the construction sector was once being the driving force behind economy, a low-income housing project may be one of the few bright spots this year.

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To realize the project, the Flatiron Group’s project had to win out in a competitive process for the affordable housing tax credits. Though the tax credits are federal, are divvied out to each state based that HORTAGE OF they state’s population where they are administhrough a state agency — here it is the AFFORDABLE HOUSING tered North Carolina Housing Finance Agency.

Fitch said his project was one of several Fitch said he was attracted to Macon County because of research studies indicating dozen selected from a larger pool of more there was a strong need for low-income hous- than 100 applicants vying for the latest round ing here. He said a formula is used to calcu- of tax credits.

The Westgate Terrace Affordable late the need, taking into account the demand in the area for low-income housing and the Housing Complex was awarded tax credits of number of units offered. Fitch said he has just more than $500,000 per year for 10 been looking to develop this type of project in years. The developers will sell the tax credits to investors to get cash up front for construcFranklin for the past three years.

Town leaders were also eager to bring the tion. In exchange, the investors get an annual project home. The town board voted unani- return on their money when the tax credits mously to approve the project earlier this are paid out.

Selling the tax credits netted $4.4 million year, and the town offered the development toward the project’s $7.4 million cost. The reduced fees for sewer and water, Fitch said. remainder of the financing will come from a $2 million dollar To realize the project, the Flatiron state credit loan with zero perGroup’s project had to win out in a cent interest and a nearly $1 million dollar loan from Macon competitive process for the Bank. These creative forms of funding, which avoid hefty debt affordable housing tax credits. and large mortgage payments, are what allow a low-income Franklin Town Planner Derek Roland housing complex to maintain low rents.

Yet, the winning criteria for this year’s believes neighbors’ concerns about increased traffic stemming from the development can housing projects was based on those which be addressed, and in the end, the project could offer a greater number of housing should have a resoundingly positive impact units while requesting a lower number of government tax credits. Fitch said the finanon the community.

“There is an excellent need for this here,” cial support of the community of Franklin was instrumental in making his application Roland said.

He is also excited to see a construction competitive.

“A big thanks goes out to the community project after witnessing such a slump in construction since the housing crisis. Roland up there,” Fitch said. “Everyone has been offered several statistics to back his favor of helping out to get this thing on board.”

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER hat was once a construction scene characterized by luxury, mountainside housing and second-home developments has a newcomer at the table. The latest construction project in Macon County are not mini-mansions in the highlands but a low-income apartment complex in town.

The $7.4 million project, known as the Westgate Terrace Affordable Housing Complex, will bring 60 low-income apartment units to a four-acre site within the town limits of Franklin. The project passed muster with the town board May of this year, following a recommendation by the town’s planning board.

But the developer, Flatiron Group, which specializes in low-income housing projects throughout the state, was waiting to see if federal low-income housing tax credits would come through. The tax credits were necessary to make the investment viable and offset the lower rent that would be charged. But, there is a limited pool of tax credits, and competition is stiff.

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August, the development is prepared to move forward.

If the project is executed as planned, and barring any winter weather construction delays, the units will be completed by November 2013, Fitch said. He expects construction to begin November of this year.

The sale of the property still needs to be finalized, and the development still needs a building permit from Macon County and a final land development permit from the town of Franklin. But, the permits are procedural, as the development has been approved in concept by the town board, despite objections from some neighbors about the impact of the development on their community.

The 60 units will be a range of one-, twoand three-bedroom apartments, with a rental price regulated to remain low for the next 30 years as a stipulation under the federal tax credits. For example, a one-bedroom unit in the proposed property will start at about $335 per month without utilities, Fitch said.

But the trade-off is only low-income residents, defined as families making less than 60 percent of the area median income, qualify to rent the apartments.

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Exploding waterfowl population prompts feeding ban at Lake Junaluska Children feed the ducks at Lake Junaluska, an ageold tradition that will soon end. Feeding will be banned due to escalating duck and geese populations. Becky Johnson photo

lation was getting out of hand,” said Don Hendershot, a naturalist and professional birder in Waynesville.

Most residents of Lake Junaluska took the announcement of the no feeding policy well.

“It was very positive,” Young said. “I had several people saying ‘Thank goodness, it’s about time.’”

Homeowners are the ones who see first-hand how the large waterfowl population affects life around the lake, Young said, and were often the ones who complained about them.

“They are here; they see it,” Young said.

Those same families who supply the ducks and geese with food must play hopscotch over and around the heaps of feces the geese leave behind on the shoreline and walking path around the lake. And, birds are notorious for spreading diseases, particularly when the population becomes overcrowded, Skinner said.

The droppings as well as over-grazing of the lakeside grass have also damaged the shoreline.

As sad as Curless is to see the feeding end, he said he understands the concern. The duck and geese population is easily twice what it use to be, he said.

“The heartstrings go both ways,” Curless said. “I can understand it.”

Because the waterfowl have lost their fear of humans, they can be aggressive. While no one has been seriously injured at Lake Junaluska, Young said that the possibility is a concern.

The animals are eye-level with, and in some cases taller than, the young children who enjoy watching the birds battle for scraps of bread.

“We have had kids scared and intimidated,” Young said.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER s the first chunk of bread was tossed in the air, a swarm of ducks and geese at Lake Junaluska swiftly waddled toward the source of the handout, a chorus of quacks and honks rising up from the flurry of feathers.

Sometimes, it is just a handful of waterfowl, but more often, dozens of ducks and geese crowd toward the feeder, fighting for a nibble, much to the delight of the bread bearers.

Feeding the ducks and geese at Lake Junaluska has been a tradition for visitors and residents alike for decades. Lake residents likewise partake in the pastime, and are often seen walking the shoreline with a bag of white bread in one hand and a grandchild’s hand in the other. Locals make as regular outing of it as well — packing their kids in the car, picking up a cheap loaf of bread and staking out the optimum location for feeding.

But effective this month, Lake Junaluska will no longer allow anyone to feed the hundreds of waterfowl, whose excrement, aggressive behavior and year-round nesting have continued to cause problems for more than a decade.

“If the food stops, maybe they will migrate on,” said Buddy Young, director of Assembly Public Works at Lake Junaluska.

Young said he is sorry that kids might be disappointed, but the fact is the waterfowl have become more than a nuisance.

“I know that it will sadden a lot of people and families and children, and I am sorry for that,” said Young, who remembers bringing his own son, who is now 30, to the lake to feed the waterfowl.

But, with the only apparent pro to feeding the waterfowl being the joy that it brings families — when compared to the long list of cons — it does not stand up. The lake this week is posting “no feeding” signs around the shore, and starting Sept. 17, it will being enforcing the new policy.

Amanda Franklin and her 5-year-old son Dustin Moore were feeding the ducks at Lake Junaluska on a late summer evening last week, unaware of the duck-feeding ban about to go into place.

Like so many who grew up in Haywood County, feeding the ducks at Lake Junaluska was a memorable part of 6 Franklin’s childhood.

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“My parents would bring us every Sunday,” Franklin said.

Franklin started bringing her own son when he was 3 and still remembers the happiness in his face the first time he tossed bread morsels to the eager, quacking ducks.

“It was so fun to watch him,” Franklin said. “It was passing on something that I had grown up with.”

Feeding the ducks is a weekly activity for Franklin and her son, even more in the summer. It is also a social occasion.

There are few evenings where she doesn’t run into people she knows along the lakeshore.

For Andy Curless, a longtime and loyal visitor to the lake, feeding the ducks is a ubiquitous pastime during his twiceannual family vacations here. Both his parents are Methodist ministers and have been making the pilgrimages to Lake Junaluska his entire life.

“Every time — there’s not been a year I haven’t fed the ducks,” said Curless, 40, admitting that the tradition continued even as a grown man before having children of his own to share the experience with.

LEFT WITH NO CHOICE The decision by Lake Junaluska Assmebly to ban feeding of ducks and geese was not made quickly — not after a few months or even a few years.

“It has been discussed for the whole 12 years I have been working here,” Young said. “It was not a decision made lightly.”

The waterfowl population had grown so larger, fueled in part by the feeding, that the unpleasant side-effects of poop, feathers, smell and a denuded shoreline finally forced the Assembly’s hand.

Area naturalists were happy to hear that the lake was finally taking action.

“It’s long overdue,” said Michael Skinner, a naturalist at the Balsam Mountain Trust’s Nature Center. “It is nothing but a good idea in my opinion.”

Without any action, the population would continue to grow, and so would the piles of poo.

“I think it is just something that had to be done. The popu-

While the snowbirds head to Florida for the winter, hundreds of geese and ducks overwinter at Lake Junaluska, Young estimated. And, providing them with something to eat during those cold months only keeps them around.

“The feeding exacerbates the problem,” he said.

Waterfowl specifically lose the instinct to migrate. Why move when a location offers a consistent food source?

“They are all basically domestic birds,” Hendershot said.

“They have no migration instinct.”

In the wild, nature balances life on its own. The population of waterfowl will only grow as large as what the habitat can support. Meaning if there is only enough food and shelter for 40 birds, then the population will hover around that number. Others will move on to places where more sustenance is available.

By feeding the ducks and geese, people are messing with nature, which has led to a surge in the numbers of waterfowl who call Lake Junaluska home.

“By having an unnatural food source, you will create an unnatural population,” Skinner said.

And, although people mean well, their food of choice — white bread — is like candy for birds.

“It’s just not nutritious,” Hendershot said.

Birds need protein and other nutrients in their diet to help develop their muscles and feathers. Store-bought bread has very little nutritional value, is processed and is not a natural part of their diet. Ducks and geese are usually herbivores.

“It’s not their natural food,” Young said. “It is easy food.

They don’t work for it.”

If waterfowl are fed bread too often, they become malnourished and obese, and if they become dependent on it as their main food source, then they will have trouble surviving without it.

Bill King, chair of the Lake Junaluska Community Council, compared the waterfowl situation to people feeding the bears in the Smokies when he was a child.

Bears would troll the roads, waiting for people to stop their cars and feed them, creating massive traffic back-ups.

The phenomenon was so prevalent that it had its own name — a bear jam.

Wildlife experts had to educate people on the problems that feeding the bears caused.

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The problem is not just at Lake Junaluska, however. A search of “geese problems” will bring up news stories and government websites about how to deal with a glut of waterfowl overrunning man-made lakes, particular in residential communities where people are prone to fee them.

“The geese — that is a problem all across the Southeast,” Hendershot said.

In the 1960s and ‘70s, there was a drop in the Canada geese population. In an attempt to rebuild it in the U.S., officials brought gaggles to the South and, for the next few generations, clipped their wings to make them stay put, Hendershot said. By the time wildlife officials had stopped, the geese had lost their migration instinct.

The Canada geese are protected by the Federal Migratory Bird Act, which prevents people from killing or otherwise harming the geese without a hunting permit.

The special permit — known as a depridation permit — is designed for instances just like this, where waterfowl are damaging property.

In the past, Lake Junaluska received a special license to kill the waterfowl from the N.C. Wildlife Commission, but never pulled the trigger so to speak.

“The first thing that every site tells you is to stop the feeding,” Young said. “As unpopular as this is going to be, it is not going to be anything like if we started taking them out.”

Lake Junaluska does not have the permit anymore, but Young did not rule it out as an option if the population does not dwindle following implementation of the new policy.

Assembly leaders hope to see the waterfowl

population start to decline this winter, Young said.

The no-feeding policy is not the first action Lake Junaluska has taken to corral the ducks and geese that fill the lake. Three years ago, the assembly bought a Border collie.

The dog lives at the lake and is trained to act like a predator, stalking the waterfowl and trying to keep them off the paved walkway and other parts of the shore.

But, the collie has not been able to keep the waterfowl contained to the lake with people consistently drawing them onto the lakeshore to feed them.

“She has had some very limited success, in a big way because of this situation,” Young said.

Not all the waterfowl at Lake Junaluska will be singing a swan song, however, as they either move on or die off.

The lake’s new “no feeding” policy does not apply to the small swan population that inhabits the area. A group of residents built a couple small fenced-in enclosures where they feed the lake’s four swans.

“Swans are not the problem,” Young said. “(The homeowners) keep their food under lock and key.”

By locking up the food, the residents can more easily monitor when, how much and what the swans are fed. Unlike the ducks and geese, it has not led to an influx of swans to the lake.

Sherri Gillett wondered why the same could not be done for the ducks and geese.

Gillett, who grew up feeding the ducks at Lake Junaluska, doesn’t understand the need for the new policy. If the poop and feathers littering the lakeshore are the concern, why not create a designated feeding area?

The lake could build a dock where people can feed them out over the water. That would keep the ducks and geese from coming up on shore, Gillett said. Or, Lake Junaluska could simply designate the existing wooden footbridge as a feeding zone.

“I hope they can work something out so we can still feed them,” Gillett said.

Lake leaders had discussed dedicating a set area to duck and goose feeding but quickly realized that it would not help control the waterfowl population.

“There is not middle ground with the geese and ducks,” Young said. “Wherever we did it, they would just overwhelm it.”

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“We are now very accustomed to the fact that you don’t feed the bears,” King said.

Although a duck or goose is not likely to seriously injure someone like a bear might, feeding any feral animal domesticates it. The animals no longer fears humans, and they can actually lose instincts that are critical to their survival in the wild, such as how to catch prey.

One thing that is not yet clear is whether the ducks and geese that have become so domesticated will be able to survive once the human hand-outs come to an end.

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High-end apartment complex caters to shortage of WCU student housing

BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER ousing developer Scott Austin did a little simple math before deciding to pursue an $8 million dollar project to build two four-story apartment complexes in Cullowhee, right on the front doorstep of Western Carolina University.

He looked at the number of dormitory beds provided by the university for student housing — about 4,000. Then he researched the number of available, quality units in the area around the university and came up with another 1,000.

He added those two numbers together and compared it with the figure of 7,500 students attending classes on campus in Cullowhee.

“So, effectively, for 7,500 students, there are 5,000 quality beds,” Austin said. “There is a woeful lack of quality student housing in the area.”

Austin’s company, Austin Development Properties, and partnering company Rudolph Properties have already broken ground at the site where they plan to build nearly 80 new apartment units furnished with more than 170 new beds by next school year, near the epicenter of the university’s planned Millennial campus expansion.

More may follow if growth in the Cullowhee area takes off — the numbers already make a strong case.

In 2000, the U.S. Census reported the area known as Cullowhee as having a population of just fewer than 3,600. By the 2010 census, that number had climbed more than 6,200 — a jump of about 40 percent.

And the university was no exception either: it enrolled about 3,000 additional students during that same time period, to reach just more than 9,000 in 2010. This year, a new enrollment record was set with a student body of 9,600 students.

However, only between 7,000 and 8,000 are actually studying in Cullowhee, with the rest participating in distance learning or attending the university’s Asheville campus, said Sam Miller, associate dean for academic and student affairs. Of those attending class-

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The preliminary sketch of a high-end apartment unit coming to Cullowhee. The complex will replace a site where trailers were formally parked. Donated rendering es on the main campus, some students prefer to live in nearby Sylva or commute from home, he said.

Miller pointed out that Austin’s calculations of a 2,500-bed shortage don’t exactly paint the whole picture. The 2010 census reported a rental vacancy rate of about 7 percent in Cullowhee and a quick housing search on Craigslist reveals several apartments still available after the start of the semester.

Also, the university’s on-campus housing ends up with about 4 percent of its beds empty — after hitting 100 percent occupancy before the early fall enrollment drop-off, Miller said.

But what Miller acknowledged may be lacking is a range of choices for students.

“If you looked at just bed count, there might be sufficient supply to meet the demand of students enrolled but not the ideal apartment,” Miller said. “What’s left over

“There have been several companies trying to do exactly this. But there is limited land around there that is not owned by the college. It’s not an easy deal to put together.”

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may not meet the exact kind of housing arrangement or lifestyle they want.”

Currently, housing available in Cullowhee runs the gamut from the couple of trailer parks near campus to the clusters of apartments and scattered rental houses. But,

WCU treads cautiously in light of record enrollment Western Carolina University will target transfer, graduate and distance learning students to help grow its enrollment without creating greater strain on its residence and dining halls.

This fall, enrollment at WCU reached a record 9,608, a 2.7 percent increase compared to fall 2011. Of those, 7,500 attend classes on campus in Cullowhee. The number of freshman who returned to the university for their sophomore year has also increased.

Although growth is good for the university, too much can leave it unprepared and unable to accommodate all its students — and WCU is already struggling with a lack of available student housing and limited room in its dining halls.

Provost Angi Brenton said the university is not in a position to build more and briefly discussed how to control its student population at WCU’s Board of Trustees meeting last week.

By targeting transfer, graduate and distance learning students, WCU can boost its enrollment numbers without adding people to its residence halls.

Transfer students and graduate students are typically older and live off-campus, whereas all freshmen are required to live on-campus.

Transfer students allow for quicker turnover among its student population as well. Transfer students only spend two or three years at the university rather than the

Austin and his business partners, who specialize in locating potential development sites near state universities with a niche housing shortage, are banking that in Cullowhee high-end housing — such as the fully-furnished units equipped with a flatscreen televisions, granite countertops and pool access that he is planning on building — is in high demand.

Rent will be commiserate with the amenities — $1,100 a month for a two-bedroom apartment.

It’s not Austin’s only project in the area either. He also purchased a partially finished hotel in foreclosure on the main commercial thoroughfare of N.C. 107 across from Walmart, which he plans to develop into a $5-million-dollar project, after picking up the property for $850,000.

Austin first bought the hotel to fill a need for short-term hospitality in the Sylva and the university area. But while negotiating that development project, he saw the market potential for high-end student housing in Cullowhee.

Michelle Masta, who brokered the real estate purchase for the property of the future apartment complex and the hotel, agreed.

“Here, there is definitely a demand,” Masta said. “I just can’t believe these students right now are living in trailer parks. It’s disgusting.”

Yet, despite her claims that the market has potential, the building boom in Cullowhee is not exactly a boom. Masta said after negotiating the $750,000 real estate deal between five Cullowhee landowners to acquire the land for the apartment complex and witnessing similar student housing proposals get denied by the strict zoning codes of Forest Hills, the nearest incorporated town to campus, she has a good idea as to why.

“There have been several companies trying to do exactly this,” Masta said. “But, there is limited land around there that is not owned by the college. It’s not an easy deal to put together.”

But Masta, who is also the owner of Skyros Investments and specializes in development and real estate projects in Jackson and Macon counties, sees the area as a hotspot for growth in the future.

“It’s one of the premier schools in North Carolina, and everyone wants to go there,” Masta said. “In terms of building and making themselves a really good university, it’s going to change. You’re not going to see all those trailer parks.”

four to five years it takes the average student starting out as a freshman.

Distance learning students take classes online and also do not required a provided living space.

WCU is not the only school looking to contain its enrollment as the number of high school graduates in the state increases. Some colleges, such as the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, are already tightening their admission requirements and accepting fewer applicants to prevent overcrowding in their residence halls and classrooms.

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who always meet or exceeded their goals.

“We didn’t get the rewards we were supposed to,” Belcher said, adding that he had phoned the president of the University of North Carolina system and expressed his concern about the funding model.

Schools that overstated their projected enrollment and sucked up money they weren’t entitled to could have been allocated to other universities instead.

The change to the funding model is part of a larger ideological shift among the University of North Carolina Board of Governors to move away from per-student funding and toward results-based funding.

“It was a transition in the philosophy of the board,” Worthington said. “Campuses needed to be held more accountable for reaching those goals.”

The Board of Governors, a policy-making body that oversees state colleges and universities, hopes to award money to schools based on markers such retention rates and the number of students who graduate each year, Worthington said.

HOW TO FUND FINANCIAL AID Belcher also briefed the trustees on a possible mandate that could come down from the Board of Governors in the future.

The Board of Governors recently discussed capping the percentage of tuition that schools can dedicate to financial aid at 25 percent.

Currently, there are no restrictions, and WCU designates a little more than 25 percent to both financial and merit-based aid.

The fear is that “essentially you have some students paying so other students can go to school,” Belcher said.

Trustee George Little asked how Belcher thought the Board of Governors would vote on the matter.

Discussions just started recently, Belcher said, and it’s too early to tell how things will end up.

“They are all over the board on it,” Belcher responded. “There were some passionate requests for not having a cap at all.”

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The Macon Aero Modelers Club is hosting a charity Fly-In at 9 a.m. Sept. 22 and 10 a.m. Sept. 23 at its flying field in Otto.

The proceeds will go to CareNet, a nonprofit organization that collects food for those in need. Visitors are asked to bring 10 cans of non-perishable food or donate $5 per car for parking.

The Fly-In is open to the public and will feature all types of radio-controlled airplanes and helicopters flying, and on display. The club’s airfield is located about eight miles south of Franklin on Tessentee Road. Hotdogs and barbecue will be available for lunch.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER estern Carolina University leaders hope to benefit from a philosophical switch in state funding for higher education — one that would clamp down on universities gaming the system, whether on purpose or unintentionally, when it comes to funding student growth.

Every year, colleges and universities in North Carolina send the state their predictions for the following year’s enrollment. The state then allocates funding for each school based on the number of students it expects to attend.

Some schools meet or exceed their projected enrollment numbers, while others fall short. When universities don’t actually realize their expected growth, the state previously hasn’t made them return the extra money it had doled out.

“Theoretically, if you don’t make that target, that money should be taken away,” said David Belcher, WCU’s chancellor, at a Board of Trustees meeting last week.

That didn’t happen though.

A few schools did not reach their estimated enrollment goals this year because of extenuating circumstances, said Joni Worthington, vice president of communications for the University of North Carolina system.

Some students received less financial aid than they anticipated or needed and were forced to drop out, leading to unexpected drops in enrollment. Some schools toughened their admission standards, meaning they had a smaller pool of qualified applicants.

Starting next year, however, those who don’t meet their stated goals will have to forfeit additional money. The new reversion requirement would have gone into effect this year, but some institutions “would have hemforrhaged” from the loss, Belcher said.

“There were institutions that didn’t meet their enrollment targets, and it would have hurt them,” Belcher said.

Although he did not name names, Belcher said one school would have lost $5 million.

Belcher said he felt the current funding system negatively impacted schools like WCU

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NO MOUNTAIN COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

Banjo legend Raymond Fairchild plucks his trusty instrument in front of the Maggie Valley Opry House, a place he’s owned for 25 years and performs nightly from late spring until early fall.

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER Raymond Fairchild is a man of few words.

But, it only takes those few words to truly grasp a man that ultimately lives up to myth and legend.

If you didn’t know where the Maggie Valley Opry House was, you’d probably pass right by it on the way to the bright lights and chance of Harrah’s Casino in Cherokee or to the hip hustle and bustle of Asheville.

The unassuming music hall is tucked behind a quaint motel that’s seen better days, in a town that’s seen better years. But that doesn’t deter Fairchild from opening his banjo case, picking up his trusty instrument and heading for the stage every night of the week from the late spring until early fall.

After 25 years of do-or-die devotion to his Opry House, Fairchild struggles to stay relevant, yet as he laments the dwindling crowds over the years, he’s unwilling to sacrifice the purity of the music.

“It’s great here, but people just don’t turn out to sit like I think they should. They got other music on their mind, especially the youngsters,” he said. “Some of the old people will come here and sit, but very few young people. I think bluegrass is the greatest music in the world, and it’s done suffered. Music doesn’t have to be jazzed up.”

Raised in nearby Cherokee, Fairchild holds tightly to his Native American ancestry.

Learning how to play banjo by ear when he 10 was teenager, plunking coin after coin into the

ty and mainstream radio.

“She wanted to open a place for nothing but mountain music,” he said. “If you want to live to be old, don’t walk through that door with an electric instrument. You’re dead on the spot. She loves mountain music that much, all acoustic. That was our goal, and that’s the way it’s going to stay.”

Fairchild sits like an old tree with a few branches missing in his musty armchair, carefully positioned in the corner of a small pavilion covering the front entrance of the Opry House. Rising inch-by-inch like an unpeeled Band-Aid, he walks inside slowly, almost as if to not pull his roots out from under him if he were to move too fast.

His fingers are filled with enough grit to sand down the toughest of questions posed. A watchful glare shoots out from his eyes, letting visitors know that though he may not say much, all it takes is a certain glance to get a point across.

“Mountain music is what this country was founded on. That’s the only pleasure they really had back then,” he said. “Most of them had to make their own instruments. That was their entertainment. And then Bill Monroe came along and put it in overdrive.”

Maggie Valley Opry House 3605 Soco Road • Maggie Valley 828.648.7941 or 828.926.9336 Shows begin at 8 p.m. (Call for updated schedules) www.RaymondFairchild.com jukebox, he developed an enormous passion for the timeless melodies of Bill Monroe or Flatt & Scruggs.

“When it comes down to bluegrass, the only bluegrass man that really did it and could take anybody and train them to do it, is buried six feet under in Kentucky, and that’s Bill Monroe,” he said.

While perfecting his sound, aptly called the “Fairchild Style,” the 73-year-old got by as a moonshiner, running through the thick woods and backcountry roads of the Appalachians, always one step ahead of the law. “I was just too fast to be caught,” he chuckled.

Though he still makes moonshine jelly that’ll cure any ailment you may have, his signature ‘shine recipe is now being produced by the new Howling Moon Distillery in Asheville — a legal operation quite different from Fairchild’s back in the day.

“You ever go through a laurel, hauling a 50gallon barrel of moonshine in the pitch-black, without no flashlight like you have today?” he asked. “If you haven’t, I recommend you try.”

It’s a Saturday night and like clockwork Fairchild readies himself backstage.

While Fairchild glides through his storied catalog of melodies, Shirley holds down the fort in back of the room, selling popcorn, soda and moonshine jelly (although there is a strict “No Alcohol” policy).

The smell of the popcorn wafts through the venue like the notes spilling off the stage from Fairchild’s Opry House is celebrating 25 the banjo. The crowd is sparse for a weekend, years of music, memories and mountain cul- even more so for mid-August, which is still ture. With two gold records proudly hanging tourist season in the mountains. There are as on the wall, Fairchild’s resume is as long as the many empty seats as there are dusty photos lining the walls — and there are innumerable road out of town.

It includes his revered appearances at the photos.

Of those in the audience, voices are hushed Grand Ole Opry, induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, five-time recipient of the “Banjo and ears tuned to the sounds radiating from of the Year” award from the Society for the the stage, only to clap enthusiastically when Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America, each song comes to a joyous close. Mountain not to mention his music (the renowned music involves respect, patience and a keen “Whoa Mule”) and image featured in numer- awareness to the art of listening, something ous documentaries, articles, television and patrons always seems to know when entering the venue. radio programs.

His backing group includes other local “Twenty-five years means I’m 25 years older. I ain’t got rich, but I could have done musical heroes, including a 17-year-old fidthings and ended up a lot worse,” he chuckled. dle/vocal prodigy from nearby Robbinsville named Julie Nelms. Fairchild swears he’s “never heard a tone “I think what makes this music like that come from a human being.” special is that a college man can “It’s not everyday some random 17-year-old can get onstage understand it and a fool can and play with a legend,” she said. understand it.”

“It’s truly been a blessing for me, and I hope the Opry House can be — Raymond Fairchild a blessing for other people.”

Placing his banjo strap over his At his peak of popularity and touring, shoulder, Fairchild graciously walks onstage, Fairchild was on the road doing upwards of saluting the faces staring back at him, only to 200 shows a year. With him away on business, jump right into the music.

“I think what makes this music special is his wife Shirley decided to open the Opry House, which would serve as a place to not that a college man can understand it, and a only celebrate but also preserve the traditional fool can understand it. But, the music they music all too easily lost in the mix of moderni- play today, nobody can understand it,” he said.

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“The youngsters are growing up with all these electric sounds, and you tell them to play a tune, and they play it, then they look at you and want you to say it’s good, but hell, you don’t even know what they played.”

Also playing with the back-up band that night was Kevin Kaiser on spoons and drum burshes, a visiting musician from Indiana.

Back home he performs with symphonies in Indianapolis, alongside some of the world’s

ing is phenomenal. He’s the best and most generous musician I’ve ever played with. He’s always encouraging us to incorporate our own styles onstage.”

The show ends with a scattered round of applause from the faces in the audience.

Fairchild comes offstage to shake a few hands, sign a few photos and albums for folks with hair as white as a mid-winter storm in South Dakota. Outside, patrons head for their vehicles or take a seat on the well-worn couches and chairs lining the wide, covered pavillion that serves as a front porch.

Meanwhile, jovial noise from a bar next door echoes loudly towards the Opry House, a scene far different from Fairchild’s hallowed halls of music purity. A rock band soon takes the stage to hearty applause from a good-sized crowd. Filled with piercing electric guitars and barely audible words, the sound is fuzzy and chaotic, one that would have Bill Monroe turning over in his grave.

Fairchild sits back down in his musty armchair. He’s a little tired, from the show tonight and from the shows he’s played every night for the majority of his life. But, no matter, for tomorrow is another day and another show, in front of another small crowd of curious people.

“Well, I don’t know how long I’ll be here at the Opry House. I may be here five years or this may be my last year,” Fairchild said. “My wife’s sick. I’m sick. But when I leave here, it’ll be sad day. With a quarter century, this has become a second home. I’m here for the people and of course you got to charge to pay the light bill and the rent. I’m here for them. I just hope they would realize this is the place to hear it.”

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17-year-old fiddle/vocal prodigy Julie Nelms (left) waits backstage before a Saturday night performance at the opry house. Fairchild (right) swears he’s “never heard a tone like that come from a human being” when he watches Nelms.

finest and most acclaimed soloists.

But, there’s just something about Fairchild he can’t shake, something that’s provoked Kaiser to think about relocating to Maggie Valley just to be able to perform and live among the culture he finds so mesmerizing.

“I kept hearing about the Opry House, and I finally came down to check it out for myself,” Kaiser said. “Well, by my second day here I was in the band, playing onstage with Raymond. He has a purity that the greatest soloists on the planet only wish they could possess. This music has to live on because music today has no soul. When he’s gone, it’s gone.”

First performing alongside Fairchild some 17 years ago, mouth harp/harmonica player Danny Blythe continued down his own path for years, only to come full circle a few years back and once again find himself in the Opry House band.

“I started playing blues, and Raymond plays a lot of blues licks,” Blythe said. “His tim-

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to your lecture, and it flows out the end of your pencil instead of stopping and starting with each letter.”

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Not all school systems have thrown in the towel on cursive.

“Our teachers have been teaching it because they feel like the kids need to know it,” said Carol Waldrop, elementary curriculum coordinator for Macon County Schools.

“They don’t worry about a kid being profi-

Third-graders at Central Elementary School in Waynesville won’t have to drill cursive like their parents did. While the latest state curriculum standards reflect the fading role of cursive in society, advocates argue cursive has merit even in the world of computers. Becky Johnson photo cient in it anymore, but they do want the kids to be able to read it because a lot of people use it.”

Waldrop said teachers have been asking what they should do now that cursive was dropped from the standard curriculum.

“I guess it is kind of up to the school districts now whether they want to or not,” Waldrop said.

Waldrop admits, though, that cursive is fading. Even her own children complained about learning it and then not using it after fourth grade.

Neighboring Swain still teaches cursive as well. Although, like Haywood County Schools, handwriting is not drilled today like it was for older generations.

“The biggest push is on being able to read cursive writing,” said Beth Coulter, the principal of West Swain Elementary. “Part of it is just knowledge to be able to function in society. It is something they will encounter throughout life.”

Therein lies the conundrum with completely discontinuing cursive. Some cursive letters look the same as their print counter parts, but others look nothing alike. A cursive “r,” “s” or “f” would be practically undecipherable to someone who’s never been exposed to cursive.

A CASE FOR CURSIVE Meanwhile, cursive is taught in kindergarten at Carolina Day School, a private school in Asheville. During their very first week of kindergarten last month, 5-year-olds began practicing cursive — even before they tackled print.

The reason isn’t to show off the prowess of private school but rather is rooted in theories about how the brain functions when writing.

“The actual process of writing is a kinesthetic process, not cognitive. It is muscle memory,” explained Kim Broshar, assistant principal and learning specialist for Carolina Day’s K-5 school.

And when it comes to cursive, the continuous flow of the letters, stringing one into the next, actually feels more natural than print — where you constantly stop and lift your pencil not only between each letter but often once or twice to even make a single letter, like a capital “F,” which takes three different strokes.

Imprinting the “muscle memory” of cursive letters, when taught before print, is actually easier for children, Broshar said. And therein lies the goal.

“When children start writing their ideas, you want their brain to be used for the formation of their ideas and what they want to say — not the letter formation and to spell the words,” Broshar said.

After the school began teaching cursive in kindergarten, the first-grade teachers noticed an immediate difference in the length of journal entries of those students compared to past students who used print.

“The children write so much more when they are not trying to remember how to make the letter,” Broshar said.

It’s the same reason cursive is the preferred form of writing when taking notes quickly in high school or college.

“The speed is quicker,” Broshar said.

“You are using your brain to attend to what you are hearing and thinking. You can listen

On the flip side, today’s college kids rarely take notes by hand any more. And certainly in another decade — by the time today’s third-graders get to college — a pad full of hastily scrawled notes during college lectures will surely be a distant memory.

As for the signature argument: why spend hours of third-graders’ time drilling cursive just so they can sign checks in cursive one day?

One of the chief arguments in favor of cursive sets up a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts, one that could propel schools to churn out future generations of cursive users simply to keep up with the Joneses. The argument goes like this: kids should learn cursive because other people use it and thus they’ll need to be able to read it.

The only way to counter that argument is for schools to universally quit teaching cursive all at once. If no one learned it, no one would use it, and the next generation could promptly send cursive to its deathbed rather than the long, slow, painful march toward oblivion being witnessed now.

If and when that time comes, however, everything from the Declaration of Independence to WWII love letters would become illegible without consulting a translation chart to decipher cursive letters.

“There is a legitimate emotional connection to cursive for a lot of people,” Nolte said.

“It is like me. They have letters at home from their mom who is not with them anymore written in cursive.”

Some teachers in Haywood County have backed off cursive more than others. Brooks Nichols, a third-grade teacher at Central Elementary in Waynesville, said she’ll keep teaching it — not drilling it or testing it but teaching it.

Nichols uses cursive herself to take notes during teacher staff meetings, claiming it is quicker and easier.

“I feel like it is an important thing to still learn,” said Nichols. “It is not something we will spend an hour at a time on, but they will be exposed to all the letters.”

Schools trying to split the middle on cursive — exposing kids to it so they can read it but not drilling it — arguable aren’t laying enough of a foundation for students to actually use cursive and tap the perceived benefits of writing more quickly, more fluidly and without their hand cramping.

But, that’s what computers are for, Nolte said.

“There is no doubt there is a social shift occurring related to technology, and I don’t know if there is anything we can do to change that or if it our job to change that,” Nolte said. 13

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER one are the days of students hunched over wide-ruled paper, forming endless strings of perfectly manicured cursive letters, painstakingly matching the dimensions of each loop of an L or swoop of G’s tail.

Cursive, at least the way your parents learned it, is on the way out.

“It is an emotional issue for a lot of us, but practically speaking, people who learned how to cursive write really, really well in second or third grade just don’t use it after that,” said Bill Nolte, assistant superintendent of Haywood County Schools. “Why would we drill somebody in something they would be very unlikely to use?”

Cursive is markedly absent from the new curriculum adopted by North Carolina last year — as well as 46 other states — known as the common core curriculum. Schools can still teach cursive if they want to, but it’s considered optional.

While Haywood County has phased out intensive cursive instruction for third-graders, teachers will still expose their students to cursive in some form rather than kicking it to the curb entirely, Nolte said.

“We still teach it so people can sign checks or write notes, but it is not something we spend an exorbitant amount of time on,” Nolte said.

Jackson County Schools likewise no longer teach cursive.

“With technology, most kids write as they get older with a computer, so that is basically why,” said Susan Griesinger, the elementary curriculum coordinator for Jackson County Schools.

Nolte said as students increasingly “key” instead of write, the arguments for cursive — being able to write faster and more fluidly — falls by the wayside in the face of computers, which are gradually taking the place of pen and paper for upper grade levels.

That makes the signature the last vestige of cursive that most kids today would ever use. And even there, PIN numbers and online banking is even making the need for a signature obsolete unless you work as a bank loan officer or doctor who has to sign things daily.

“The practical matter is that even though we have trained almost everyone who has come through public school to cursive write, very few use it,” Nolte said.

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Haywood turns a profit converting landfill methane into power

Refinancing past debt could net Haywood big savings

to install the equipment and systems necessary to harness it.

Methane is a byproduct of decomposing trash and a volatile pollutant that contributes to global warming. The county would have been required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to somehow dissipate or otherwise use the gas even if it had not decided take on the alternative energy project.

Last year, the county drilled 21 gas extraction wells in the landfill to tap the alternative energy source. After the gas is converted to electricity, the power is sold to Haywood Electric Membership Corporation, which serves 25,000 customers in the county area, and is put on the electric grid.

Currently, the system is pulling methane

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER Low interest rates have prompted Haywood County to consider refinancing its outstanding debt dating back to various building projects over the years.

The county will hire a financial analyst to review all its loans and their interest rates, compared to the rates the county could get if it refinanced, and whether doing so would be financially advantageous.

Julie Davis, the county finance director, received permission from the Board of Commissioners this week to hire First Southwest, a Charlotte-based financial advisory firm, to look into it.

Haywood County currently has about $71.1 million in outstanding debt in 14 different past projects, including the justice center, the his-

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER aywood County is making a few hundred dollars a month converting methane gas emanating from the old county landfill on Francis Farm into electricity, and reselling it over the power grid.

“It has been a long process, “It has been a long process, but we are out there putting but we are out there putting power back on the grid,” said power back on the grid.”

David Francis, the Haywood County tax administrator and — David Francis, Haywood County solid waste committee member, at tax administrator a meeting of the county Board of Commissioners this week.

The county received a $1 million grant from the landfill and putting it onto the in early 2011 from the N.C. State Energy power grid for six hours a day, Francis said.

Office to turn the methane gas seeping out The county is closely monitoring the operaof the old landfill into an energy source and tions with the hopes of keeping it up-andhas been working since summer of that year running 24 hours a day.

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toric courthouse renovations, the new Department of Social Services building, and numerous schools. Its interest rates range from as low 1.69 percent to as high as five percent.

Refinancing could possibly save the county $35,000 to $45,000 per year in its various loan payments, according to a report by Davis.

“It looks like it’s going to make sense to do a re-funding,” Davis said.

How much the county pays each year varies but currently it shells out about $9.4 million yearly toward its debt.

The contract between the county and First Southwest is contingent on how many of its outstanding bonds and loans it decides to refinance. However, if the county decides not to refinance anything, it could still be assessed a fee, estimated between $15,000 and $20,000 for the financial services.

Late fees for overdue books and CDs have increased at libraries in Haywood County.

Habitually late bibliophiles previously paid 10 cents per day for every late book or CD, with the maximum charge being $10 per item. However, the Haywood County Board of Commissioners voted this week to up the daily fee to 25 cents per book and CD. Though, the maximum fine will remain at $10, and DVD late fees will remain at $1 a day.

The change puts the Haywood County libraries in line with the other libraries in the state.

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Sonoco Plastics recently began an $11.7 million expansion. Caitlin Bowling photo

Sonoco Plastics expansion underway An $11.7 million expansion by Sonoco Plastics in Waynesville is now underway, landed in part thanks to $828,000 worth of economic incentives from the state, Haywood county and the town.

Sonoco is currently in the process of expanding its facility on Howell Mill Road off Russ Avenue by 17,000 square feet and transforming it into a 24-hour operation.

The company, which manufactures plastic packaging such as the trays used in frozen dinners, has already spent nearly $1 million on the expansion, said Mark Clasby, executive director of the Economic Development

Commission, at a Haywood County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday. The new capital investment on the building expansion and equipment is estimated at $11.7 million.

Sonoco Plastics has operations in other locations, which were considered along with Waynesville for the expansion. Tax credits and grants sweetened the pot, in return for the funding, the company, formerly known as Associated Packaging, needed to add 35 jobs.

Last year, Sonoco Plastics employed 97 people. Now, the company has 132 full-time and 30 part-time employees.

The plant has received $175,000 in job creation grants from the North Carolina Rural Center so far. All funding from the Rural Center must pass through the county, which then disburses it.

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how much the ABC Commission received and thought that tribal leaders should evaluate all its paid commissions.

“I think we do need to re-evaluate, ‘Are they getting over compensated?” Taylor said.

“I do think we need to take some time to look at these boards.”

Tribal council members asked Collette Coggins, chair of the ABC Commission, specific questions about the commission’s operations, duties carried out by its employees versus its board members and how often it meets.

A couple of tribal council members admitted that they did not know exactly what the commission’s responsibilities are.

A recent story in The Smoky Mountain News citing the salaries of Cherokee’s ABC Commission apparently raised eyebrows among some enrolled members, according to Missy Crowe, who addressed tribal council on the topic last week.

“A lot of my friends and folks out there were just kind of taken back,” said Crowe, who introduced the ordinance asking to replace the current ABC Commission members.

Crowe said that the tribe should focus more of its money on its schools, hospitals and other services rather than commission salaries, the casino and now an adventure park.

“We should have a premier hospital just like that casino. We should have a premier school,” Crowe said. “A lot of people are sitting there talking about cutting the fat, and this

(ABC commission salaries) is some of the fat they are talking about.”

The tribe’s earnings from the alcohol sales cover compensation for ABC commission members. The casino is the only place on the reservation where alcohol is sold; the rest of Cherokee is dry.

One council member pointed out that the tribe reviewed the commission’s duties and compensation about two years ago. During that time, however, the tribal ABC commission was still in the process of setting up the tribe’s alcohol operations, which required a significant amount of legal and political footwork to establish. Given its sovereign nation status, the tribe got special permission from the state to operate as its own wholesaler, allowing it to keep a greater share of the profits and taxes off liquor sales compared to other ABC operations in the state.

When the report was presented to the board a couple of years ago, there were questions then about the ABC commission’s salaries and responsibilities, recalled Adam Wachacha, a tribal council member.

Wachacha suggested that the council wait until the commission members’ terms expire and revisit the situation then.

Michell Hicks, principal chief of the Eastern Band, pointed out that in October tribal leaders will review the operations of its various commissions and departments during preparation of its annual report. Hicks said he thought the concerns were the result of a personal grudge.

“I am not sure what the basis is, but it sounds frivolous to me,” Hicks said, recommending that the council vote down Crowe’s proposal.

Crowe called for dismissing the current ABC Commission members because she claimed that they could not answer important questions posed to them by enrolled members during discussions leading up to the April vote on reservation-wide alcohol sales. The referendum to allow reservation-wide alcohol failed by a more than 60 percent majority — meaning alcohol sales aren’t allowed on the reservation except on the casino property.

“A lot of the people came and said that they just did not feel confident in the board, in their presentation when they came into the communities,” Crowe said, adding that she is not the only person with concerns.

Coggins defended the board’s ability to answer enrolled members’ questions.

“I feel like we answered all the questions they asked,” Coggins said.

One of those questions, for example, was what would count as a grocery store for the purpose of selling alcohol. Had the vote passed, grocery stores would have been permitted to sell alcohol, but whether a store could have put up single shelf of bread and crackers and qualify as a grocery in order to sell alcohol was unclear. It was unanswerable leading up to the vote, Coggins said, because it was something the tribal council 17 had yet to define.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER ome Cherokee leaders are questioning if compensation for members of its various commissions should face the chopping block next fiscal year — in particular the $25,000 made by each of the five members the tribal Alcohol and Beverage Control Commission.

The discussion was prompted by criticism of the tribal ABC Commission by an enrolled member, who called for the ousting of the current ABC members.

Although the call to dismiss ABC members was rejected by Cherokee tribal council last week, some council members began to question what exactly the ABC Commission does and is it worth the $25,000 the commission members receive.

“We should be asking these questions,” said council member Bo Taylor. “As a relatively new council member, I want to know. I want to know what their duties are.”

Taylor said he personally was shocked by

concern for Shell and his constituents.

“This is tough. We had a meeting in Big Cove, and they are concerned about the debt,” Shell said.

The tribe will own the adventure park, but it is unclear who will manage it. The tribe could run the park all by itself or enter a similar agreement to the one it has with Harrah’s, which has a contract to manage the casino operations on behalf of the Eastern Band.

The new attraction will mean 200 to 300 new jobs and is expected to bring even more visitors to Cherokee than it sees already. The casino alone In broad terms, the year-round adventure park draws more than 3.5 million people to the area, and that is expected to grow to 4 million in the will include a 302-room hotel, restaurants, coming year with the advent of live table games.

“There is a lot of opportunity for younger retail shops, an arcade, water slides, people,” Lambert said. “This can positively interactive pools, rock climbing, zip-lining and impact other businesses.”

Visitors to adventure parks stay two-and-asplash pads, among other possible attractions. half to three days on average, according to a study conducted for the tribe.

“The concept, to be successful, has to have a hotel,” Hicks Currently, the tribe estimates that a room in the hotel and said. admission for a family of four to the adventure park will cost All council members approved the project with the excep$200 a day. tion of Perry Shell and David Wolfe. Councilwoman Terri One council member expressed concern about whether Henry was absent. enrolled members would be able to afford admission to the “I don’t know if we have the numbers year-round to supadventure park. port this, and that is my concern,” Shell said, adding that he However, Lambert said the park would offer cheaper day had similar reservations about the Sequoyah National Golf passes for those not staying at the attached hotel.

Club, which has yet to become self-sustaining. “I am hesitant The tribe has fast-tracked the adventure park project to take on this because I don’t really trust the numbers at this point.” advantage of available federal tax credits. Lambert said he and Other council members disagreed, thinking people would other project leaders hope to break ground in March or April be drawn to the adventure park during the winter to take part of next year and open the park in June 2014. The tribe will pay in water activities that are typically reserved for summer. for the adventure park using tax credits, equity and a $32-milThe amount of debt the tribe would have to incur was also a lion bank note.

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the other can spend time with the children at the park.

“We know that we need something in this town,” said Bo Taylor, a council member from Big Cove, suggesting that project leaders educate enrolled members about the plan. “They need to know how this is going to help them.”

Originally, the project was estimated to cost about $142 million, but designers were able to slash the price by reducing the number of hotel rooms, though they did not want to eliminate the hotel altogether.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER he Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is planning a $92million adventure park, which is expected to attract families to Cherokee and open up a new source of revenue for the tribe.

Tribal council last week approved the idea in a 9-to-2 vote.

The adventure park is still in the early planning stages, and limited information is being released about what it will entail.

But now that with the go-ahead from tribal council, the tribe’s planning department will spend the next seven months nailing down the specifics of what exactly visitors can expect from the park, said Jason Lambert, director of planning and development with the tribe.

In broad terms, the year-round adventure park will include a 302-room hotel, restaurants, retail shops, an arcade, water slides, interactive pools, rock climbing, zip-lining and splash pads, among other possible attractions. Many of the features, including the water park, could be indoor to allow for yearround visitation.

“It’s as good a project as I’ve seen in my eight years with the tribe,” Lambert told tribal council.

The goal of the new park is to diversify the tribe’s income and attract families to Cherokee.

Currently, its main source of revenue comes from the casino, which caters to people 21 and older. Although children can stay in the hotel, they are not allowed in the casino, and there is nothing at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel specifically for the under 21 crowd.

“What we have is not bringing families and it’s not going to,” said Michell Hicks, principal chief of the Eastern Band, who is a supporter of the project.

The adventure park is expected to draw families of all ages to Cherokee. And if one parent wants to gamble at the casino,

BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER ackson County commissioners voted last week to take out a $10 million loan for the construction of a gymnasium and auditorium at Smoky Mountain High School in Sylva.

County commissioners’ unanimous support of the project did not come as a surprise. Last year, they authorized $500,000 for design work on the project, which is now complete.

The project is currently out to bid, and architect John Cort, who designed the plans for the gymnasium and auditorium, said he expects about seven contractors to submit bids this month.

Given the competition among contractors in a down construction market, Jackson County Manager Chuck Wooten hopes the county will receive a competitive bid on the project.

Nevertheless, he said the county may be prepared to borrow more if necessary to cover the entire cost of the gymnasium and arts center, as well as other school projects now on the backburner, such as the locker room addition at Blue Ridge School in Cashiers.

Associate Superintendent Steve Jones called the commissioners’ vote a positive step toward the completion of the gym and auditorium project.

“The two boards have worked very well together on this project, and the commissioners have been very gracious in providing us funding for our capital projects,” Jones said, referring to the financial relationship between the commissioners and the school board, where funds for the schools’ capital projects must be supplied by the county.

Jones said the gym and auditorium were imagined 10 years ago, when a long range

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seating for about 1,500, he said.

The fine arts auditorium will seat 750 and come equipped with stage features for high school performances, so those too do not have to be hosted at off-campus locations, such as auditoriums at Southwestern Community College or Western Carolina University as they are now.

“Every time you transport students, it’s dangerous,” Cort said. “You need facilities.”

Wooten said the application for the $10 million loan will still need to be approved by the Local Government Commission of the State Treasurer’s Office. The application to the state will be submitted later this month after construction bids come in and, a low bidder is chosen.

Wooten said the county is looking at a low interest rate of 2.79 percent under a special tax-exempt loan. The county is limited to borrowing only $10 million in taxexempt loans in any given calendar year, so if the project cost exceeds $10 million, the county would borrow the remainder at a later date.

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The new gym will be air conditioned, have enough court room for multiple activities to practice at once, without transporting children off-campus or staggering practice start times into the night, and enough

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Opinion An open door makes for a great elementary school Smoky Mountain News

friend surprised me the other day. At his child’s eleAwalktrusted mentary school, it had been decided parents should not their children into the classroom in the mornings. Seems

such habits, according to the school officials, foster dependency instead of independence.

I laughed at first, thinking of my friend’s sense of humor.

He knows I’ve always taken a keen interest in my own kids’ schooling, and I was sure he was kidding me. No joke, he retorted.

I felt sorry for him. As I thought about it, I recalled some of the best memories of taking my kids to school and, when there was time, walking them into class. At Waynesville’s Central Elementary when John Sanderson was principal, the school was as open to parents as one could imagine. My kids, for the most part, enjoyed it when I walked them in. Or perhaps they were embarrassed. Doesn’t matter, because to me it was important. Sometimes it would lead to conversations with their teachers, or perhaps a look at recent artwork or projects.

I’d often get introduced to the friends I’d heard about at home.

Other days, I’d poke my head into the principal’s office or catch him in the hallway for a few words about whatever,

We must protect religious freedoms To the Editor: Some like to claim that ours is a Christian nation. But this was not the intent of our Founding Fathers. While a majority of our citizens may identify themselves as Christian (as do I), there is nothing in our Constitution that names our nation as Christian, or gives special recognition to Christianity. The Constitution is a wholly secular document and makes no mention of Christianity or Jesus Christ. In fact, the Constitution refers to religion only twice — in the First Amendment, which bars laws “respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” and in Article VI, which prohibits “religious tests” for public office. Both these provisions are evidence that our country was not founded as officially Christian.

The Founding Fathers did not create a secular government because they disliked religion. Many — though not all — were believers themselves. Yet they were well aware of the dangers of church-state union.

They had experienced religious tyranny and oppression — either in Europe before they came here, or in one of the early colonies that allied religion with government.

Determined to prevent such religious persecution here, they adopted a Constitution that insured the separation of church and state.

We can be thankful they did, as we have freedom of religion today precisely because neither government nor church can impose its will on the other. We must make sure that this dividing line is maintained, and guard with vigilance the assurance that our friends in the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and other faiths have the same freedom and pro-

sometimes school, sometimes Carolina basketball, or perhaps music. I felt like he wanted me and as many parents as possible in the hallways. Sometimes John wasn’t around. Perhaps he was running car line, which he did when necessary.

Often I’d stop in the lobby to chat with other parents who might be sitting or standing around, chatting with each other or teachers. Those were the same parents who often volunteered in whatever way necessary. Or, perhaps they were stopping a parent who didn’t volunteer and trying to get them involved in helping the PTO, helping with the Editor walkathon, or just helping in whatever way they could.

It was an amazingly supportive elementary school atmosphere, one created by a principal and teachers who were not put off or intimidated by overzealous parents and who were, for the most part, enthusiastic about having easy access to those most responsible for helping the children in their classes succeed. My children are in college and high school now, but

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tection for practicing their faiths as do Christians. There can only be freedom for us if we protect the freedom of all by preventing the imposition of our faith on adherents of the others.

Doug Wingeier Waynesville

Columnist misguided in supporting Obama To the Editor: You printed an interesting, however misguided, guest column in the Sept. 5 issue. John Beckman (“Proud to be an American … sort of,” www.smokymountainnews.com/opinion/item/8558) spends three columns lamenting the state of the country but then at the end admits he will vote for the President. Evidently, despite his frequent use of the internet, he has never examined the background and record of this president.

The corruption he deplores is all over this presidency and this administration.

So Mr. Beckman wants to be a proud American as our president “does by his actions not his words,” says he! Where have you been these nearly four year, sir? In the very first months of his presidency Obama made his “Apology Tour” to countries around the world asking for forgiveness for America’s bad behavior. Never mind that the USA has rescued failing countries, has sent billions of aid to help disaster victims everywhere and anywhere, has been a dedicated ally to countries in peril and has been an economic and lifestyle model to worldwide citizens. Do you see immigrants flooding to any other countries other than the good old USA? Finally, Mr. Beckman refers to the “spin

those same families who were encouraged enthusiastically to get involved at Central Elementary way back when, for the most part, have children who are pretty successful students.

As my children left elementary school, I bemoaned the reality of middle and high school — parents can’t be as involved in their kids’ education. Rules get more stringent, discipline gets tougher, academic expectations move into another sphere.

Testing, ridiculously over-emphasized in elementary school, gets even more attention.

I have come to detest the much over-used phrase, “it takes a village,” but that doesn’t take away from the truth of it. Public schools, especially elementary schools, can be one of the most powerful unifying elements of a great community, a place where people come together to give children the best possible chance to succeed in life.

What’s it like at an elementary school where parents are discouraged or even banned from walking their children to class in the morning? I don’t know, but I don’t see how it can be good for the kid, the parents or the school.

(Scott McLeod can be reached at info@smokymountainnews.com.)

LETTERS and obstructions” Obama’s opponents throw at him. According to my recollections it is just the opposite … the Obama campaign and PACs have thrown everything they can conjure up at Mitt Romney and now Paul Ryan. Romney is falsely accused of not paying taxes and causing the death of a cancer victim. According to the Obama machine Romney’s worst offense of all is being a successful businessman who has built his own success and that of others. This of course is outside of Barak Obama’s experience level since he has never worked in the private sector nor has he had any appreciable record of success … except of course to talk his way into the presidency of the United States.

Finally, if you think all of the above is “opinion,” here is the Obama record from 2008 to the present. Sorry, but this is not a record to be proud of.

• Unemployment: 7.8% then, 8.3% now.

• Median income: $54,983 then, $50,964 now.

• Gas prices: $1.85 per gallon then, $3.78 now.

• National debt: $10.6 trillion then, $16 trillion+ now.

• Half of all Americans are now considered “poor” or “low income.”

• One out of every six Americans is living in poverty, an increase of millions since Obama took office.

• Food stamp usage has increased by 45 percent under this president.

• Average family health care premium costs have increased to roughly $15,000 per year.

Carol C. Adams Glenville Communications chairman, Jackson County GOP)

Some things should not be on public property To the Editor: While I support the display of the Confederate flag or the Ten Commandments as a means of individual personal opinion, neither should be displayed on property we the people own together.

The beginning of the end of the Civil War began on April 19, 1865 when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant. At that time “all physical possessions of the Confederate army” were also surrendered (including their flag) and all troops became united under one flag. Grant charitably agreed to give back to the Confederates their horses and to feed and supply them. The union of the states was eventually reestablished. The 13th Amendment banning slavery was passed. And most importantly, the 14th Amendment, which reflects what our founders had previously established by the adoption of the godless and, without regard for any scripture, U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights.

Those did in fact create a secular republic whose primary duty is to equally protect its citizens as well as “all persons” within its borders, as to their naturally inherent or otherwise inalienable rights, of which came not directly from any God, but were inherited from their “creator” — their parents.

This embrace of the deistic notion of a God who created all things great and small never to interfere again, which is by itself a firm basis for separating the church from the state, can be found throughout our founding documents.

But of course there has been a long history of disregard for the 14th Amendment, whereby women and minorities were not considered to be “all persons.” The current Republican

Party platform certainly reflects a disregard for a woman’s naturally inherent or otherwise inalienable rights as the result of her birth by denying to any woman under any circumstance her right to the liberty of selfdetermination by the means of her own conscience.

Again, neither the Ten Commandments nor the Confederate flag should be displayed on public taxpayer funded property except as individual personal opinion.

Chuck Zimmerman Waynesville

To the Editor: As a full-time resident of Maggie Valley, I am shocked at the shenanigans taking place in our town over the selection of a replacement for Alderman Phil Aldridge who resigned in August.

I think that the people currently serving the town on the Board of Aldermen need to remember that the positions on the Board of Aldermen are elected positions and that the person who is selected to fill the vacancy left by Mr. Aldridge will serve out the remainder of his term, for three years.

Therefore, this is a serious issue for the

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townspeople and needs a serious solution.

This is not an opportunity to put “one’s good friend” on the board or have back room discussions about candidates amongst aldermen about their “favorites” before candidate interviews have even been conducted. This smacks of cronyism and violates the Open Meetings Act. This is an opportunity to select the best person for the job of serving the town and the public needs to have input in this decision.

Since Mayor Ron DeSimone has decided to interview all the applicants, I suggest that these interviews be conducted publicly with opportunity for the public to question the applicants. This would take the place of scheduling an election and give the town their due process. I am aware that there is no requirement in the town ordinances to have an application process, or conduct interviews, or even have a public discussion when a vacancy occurs on the board of alderman.

Since this is the third vacancy in the last two years, perhaps this time, the town needs to consider the correct process for filling vacancies that serves the best interest of the town and draft new ordinances accordingly.

Otherwise, there is no transparency or fairness in government and the whole process is tainted.

Dr. Janet Banks Maggie Valley

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To the Editor: The 2012 campaign illustrates two oftquoted maxims: that war is a continuation of politics by other means, and that truth is the first casualty of war.

It’s more than the usual question about which party will occupy the White House for the next four years. The campaign has become a civil war — minus the bloodshed — over what kind of America this will be for a long time to come.

The Republican Party, its former “big tent” converted into a death chamber for dissent, single-mindedly idealizes an America where wealth is a measure not just of success but of one’s value to society. Whatever stands in the way of wealth — whether taxes or regulation — is to be rooted out.

The Democrats still believe that we Americans owe more than that to each other, to our children, to our future, to our planet.

No one alive has experienced a choice so clear or so stark. That’s the one thing on which the parties agree: it’s about changing the future. Whether for better or for worse is for the voters to decide.

But the Republicans don’t trust the voters to make that choice intelligently. If they did, they wouldn’t be lying so much and so often about whether President Obama repealed welfare’s work requirement or “raided” Medicare of $716-billion.

My side has shot from the hip too, but not nearly so flagrantly or persistently.

The Medicare issue, one of five falsehoods that Paul Ryan spoke to the Republican convention, has long since been effectively debunked by Consumers Union and dozens of media fact-checkers. But the Republicans are on record as saying they’re not going to let fact-checkers run their campaign, and so there was Ryan, retelling that big lie. I also found it reeking in my mail box last week and heard it in a Romney-Ryan robocall.

Ryan’s own budget incorporated the same $716 billion in savings, but of course hypocrisy is just another form of deceit. The truth is that Obamacare added new benefits to traditional Medicare, such as wellness visits and cancer screenings, and took none away. The savings will come from reducing overpayments to Medicare advantage plans, hospitals that because of Obamacare will no longer have to treat so many uninsured patients, and certain other providers.

The Romney-Ryan Medicare canard symbolizes the Republican attempt to insert generational warfare into the class struggle that they began. They want to peel off senior voters by assuring us that our Medicare and Social Security benefits would be safe in their hands, so long as we let them have their way with people not yet 55.

Do the Republicans truly take us to be that selfish? Are they betting that we don’t care as much for our children and grandchildren?

Yes, they do. Yes, they are. Is it surprising that a party pledged to Social Darwinism as national policy should be encouraging voters to look out only for themselves?

Martin A. Dyckman Waynesville

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The end is nigh, but too few will admit it

BY KENN JACOBINE G UEST COLUMNIST ccording to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, we are about to enter another recession. Of course, one would be hard-pressed to convince the over 20 million Americans who remain unemployed or underemployed that the last recession ever ended. But, I suppose, according to economists, it technically did.

Given the circumstance we are in, what can be concluded firmly is what this commentator has maintained all along, namely that Keynesianism is a complete and utter failure. Yes, it made many Americans feel like the political class cared about them because it spent so much money on their behalf in an attempt to “stimulate” the economy back to good health. And all the money infused into the economy either by government appropriations, monetized debt, or artificially low interest rates did indeed forestall an economic collapse.

But, like the old Chiffon margarine commercial which warned its viewers that impending doom would befall those that fooled Mother Nature, doom is now ours because Bush, Bernanke, Geithner, Obama and many members of Congress dared to fool the free market.

Naturally, Keynesian diehards will claim that the problem is that not enough money was spent to revive the declining economy.

Well, that is an easy out given that more money could always be spent. In any event, more money spent would have probably forestalled the next recession even farther into the future, but it wouldn’t have solved the systemic problems in the economy — namely, price fixing by the Fed, government spending crowding out private investment, and overregulation. In fact, with the spending, we have had an even worse recession than the last is on the horizon; if more money had been spent the next downturn would be that much larger.

The fact of the matter is that since 2008 we have racked up close to $6 trillion more in debt with nothing to show for it. The big spenders responsible will blame the greedy rich who they say do not pay their “fair share” of the tax burden. But, according to the IRS, in 2007 the richest 1 percent earned 22 percent of national income while paying 40 percent of all personal income taxes; the top 5 percent earned 37 percent and paid 61 percent of all income taxes; and the top 10 percent earned 48 percent and paid 71 percent of all income taxes. Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent earned 12 percent of the nation’s income but only paid 3 percent of the nation’s income tax. So, I am not sure what the President and his coterie are talking about when they claim the rich need to

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be taxed more in order for them to pay their “fair share”?

I know one thing and that is that the disastrous policies of the U.S. government are responsible for not only the loss of our industrial base but the current trend of America’s young enterprisers leaving for greener pastures overseas. High taxation, overregulation, inflation, and the prospects of even higher healthcare costs through Obamacare are the reason for the exodus.

With all of these productive entities fleeing our borders and given that the federal government is close to $16 trillion in debt and unfunded future liabilities, specifically for Social Security and Medicare, adds tens of trillions more to that total, how is America ever going to meet her future obligations?

To make matters even worse, should interest rates rise to their historic long-term average the annual interest payment on the national debt would more than double.

Using current numbers, the total would eat up 41 percent of revenues collected. The massive increase in that line-item would require even larger annual budget deficits at a time when America can least afford it.

The problem is that Americans want their Social Security, Medicare and all the other goodies politicians promise them. And they don’t seem to mind the endless wars and corporate favoritism coming out of Washington either. This can be concluded because they continue to re-elect the same policymakers that have produced the mess we are in.

On the eve of another recession, leading policymakers in Washington are not discussing what needs to be done to turn the economy around. Very few are talking seriously about addressing the debt crisis.

Lastly, most Americans who will vote this November are poised to send these same politicians back to Washington.

And that is why the end is nigh. The end of what you ask? The end of everything we have come to expect as Americans since the 1970s. It will be the end of militarism and endless wars. This time it will truly be the end of welfare as we know it. It will be the end of political favors to every special interest group under the sun. Finally, it will be the end of living off accrued wealth by producing less and less while at the same time spending like drunken sailors to acquire cheap Chinese goods.

All these things will end because we simply can no longer afford them. The real question is can we afford what will come after the end?

(Kenn Jacobine teaches internationally and maintains a summer residence in Western North Carolina.)

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828.926.0734. Open Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Friday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Celebrating our 25th year. Enjoy world famous hot dogs as well as burgers, seafood, hushpuppies, hot wings and chicken. Be sure to save room for dessert. The cobbler, pie and cake selections are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

ANTHONY WAYNE’S 37 Church St, Waynesville. 828.456.6789.

Open for lunch Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; open for dinner Thursday-Saturday 5 to 9 p.m.; and Sunday brunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Exceptional, new-American cuisine, offering several gluten free items.

BIG MOUNTAIN BBQ 79 Elysina Ave., Waynesville 828.454.0720 Open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Offering a wide selection of

traditional hickory smoked BBQ, pork, chicken, beef and ribs. All complimented by homemade sides and desserts. Full service catering for special events.

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997.

Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Now offering a full homemade breakfast menu. Also fresh-cut salads; slowsimmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts.

Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily.

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

BOGART’S 35 East Main St., Sylva. 828.586.6532.

Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Serving classic American food and drink in a casual environment. Daily lunch and dinner specials. Children’s menu available. Call for catering quotes. Private room available for large parties. Accepts MC/Visa, Discover and American Express.

BRIDGET’S BISTRO AT THE HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville. 828.452.7837 Lunch Tuesday through Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday Brunch 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Enjoy fresh local products, created daily. Enjoy dining in our beautiful patio garden. Let us host or cater your next spe-

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

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

828.587.2233. Open Monday-Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tasty, healthy and quick. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, espresso, beer and wine. Come taste the savory and sweet crepes, grilled paninis, fresh, organic salads, soups and more.

Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly.

Live music and lots of events. Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view. Join us for cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting) and familystyle dinners on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Social hour starts at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7 p.m. Our bountiful family-style meals include prime rib, baked ham, and herb-baked chicken; cookouts feature steaks, ribs, chicken and pork chops, to name a few.

Every dinner is complemented with an assortment of seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts, and we offer a fine selection of wine and beer. Breakfast is also served daily from 8 to 9:30 a.m., and lunch from 12 to 2 p.m. Please call for reservations.

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

From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday dinner starting at 5 p.m. “Best of”

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

828.926.4486. Open Monday thru Saturday 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. Enjoy the atmosphere and charm of the Copper Leaf Café’s signature sandwiches and salads featuring Boar’s Head meats & cheeses. Home-made soups served daily as well as “made from scratch” desserts. Full service Espresso Bar and a unique selection of gifts. Located next to High Country Furniture and Design.

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

Open Monday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy organic, fairtrade, gourmet espresso and coffees, a select, eclectic list of wines, and locally prepared treats to go with every thing. Come by early and enjoy a breakfast crepe with a latte, grab a grilled chicken pesto crepe for lunch, or

wind down with a nice glass of red wine. Visit us on Facebook!

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

800.627.6250. Open nightly from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Enjoy fine a la carte dining in a nice, relaxed setting. Extensive menu features natural Niman Ranch steaks and fresh seafood flown in from American waters. Full bar and wine cellar. thecorkandcleaver.com.

CORNERSTONE CAFÉ 1092 N. Main Street, Waynesville.

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

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

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

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

EL TORITO 2840 Old Cullowhee Road, Cullowhee.

828.293.9333. Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Offering authentic Mexican fare featuring wild mush-

rooms, flowers and herbs, epazote and many oreganos and chilies. A full menu of traditional Mexican foods. Take-out orders available.

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

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

Tuesday-Saturday. Father and son team Frank and Louis Perrone cook up dinners steeped in Italian tradition. With recipies passed down from generations gone by, the Perrones have brought a bit of Italy to Maggie Valley. frankiestrattoria.com FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St. Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Sunday lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mondays. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes.

Seasonal menu focuses on Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors. Come for the restaurant’s 4 @ 4 when you can choose a center and three sides at special prices.

Offered Wed- Fri. from 4 to 6. frogsleappublichouse.org.

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

Open 7 days a week at 5 p.m. Located in the historic Hooper’s Drugstore, Guadalupe Café is a chef-owned and operated restaurant serving Caribbean inspired fare complimented by a quirky selection of wines and microbrews.

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

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

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

JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212.

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

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

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

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

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

LUCIO'S RESTAURANT 313 Highlands Road, Franklin.

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

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

Lucio’s famous garlic rolls for $24.95.

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

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

Earth-friendly foods at people-friendly prices.

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

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

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

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

MILL & MAIN 462 W. Main St., Sylva. 828.586.6799.

Serving lunch and dinner. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

Tuesday-Saturday. Noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Pizza, pasta, outstanding homemade desserts, plus full lunch and dinner menus.

All ABC permits. Take-out menus available.

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

Open Wednesday through Sunday, 4:30 to 9 p.m.; lunch Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Sunday buffet 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Cooking up mouth-watering, wood-fired Angus steaks, prime rib and scrumptious fresh seafood dishes. The wood-fired grill gives amazing flavor to every meal that comes off of it. Enjoy creative dishes made using moonshine. Stop by and simmer for a while and soak up the atmosphere. The best kept secret in Maggie Valley. themoonshinegrill.com MOUNTAIN PERKS ESPRESSO BAR & CAFÉ 9 Depot St., Bryson City. 828.488.9561.

Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot. Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections. Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. Various desserts.

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OLD STONE INN 109 Dolan Road, off Love Lane.

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

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

Casual atmosphere, dine indoor, outside on the patio or at the bar. Reservations appreciated.

PASQUALINO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 25 Everett Street, Bryson City.

828.488.9555. Open for lunch and dinner everyday 11:30 a.m.-late. A taste of Italy in beautiful Bryson City. Exceptional pasta, pizza, homemade soups, salads. Fine wine, mixed drinks and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, reservations appreciated.

PATIO BISTRO 30 Church Street, Waynesville.

828.454.0070. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Breakfast bagels and sandwiches, gourmet coffee, deli sandwiches for lunch with homemade soups, quiches, and desserts. Wide selection of wine and beer.

Outdoor and indoor dining.

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 828.926.0201 Bar open Monday thru Saturday; dining room open Tuesday thru Saturday at 5 p.m. Full service restaurant serving steaks, prime rib, seafood and dinner specials. Live music Thursday, Friday and Saturday. TIki Bar open (weather permitting) Friday, Saturday & Sunday beginning April.

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

Seasonal and rotating draft beers, good selection of wine. Home-Grown Music Network Venue with live music most weekends. Pet friendly and kid ready.

SPEEDY’S PIZZA 285 Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.3800.

Open seven days a week. Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Family-owned for 30 years. Serving hand-tossed pizza made to order, pasta, subs, gourmet salads, calzones and seafood. Also serving excellent prime rib on Thursdays. Dine in or take out available.

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

THE SWAG COUNTRY INN Hemphill Road off of Hwy 276.

828.926.0430. Serving a 4-course gourmet dinner seven nights a week at 7:00, with a social hour and hors d'oeuvres on the dog trot beginning at 6. Also offering

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the chef's gourmet picnic at noon every Wednesdays on Gooseberry Knob, BBQ Cookout every Thursday night and Sunday brunch each week. Daily backpack lunches are also available for hiking. Bring your own wine and spirits. Reservations required.

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

828.944.0445. Fresh seafood made to order. Oysters raw, steamed, or fried. Handcut steaks. Live music, cocktails, pet-friendly patio dining with a nice fountain. Friday patio music starts at 7 p.m. and Saturday night after dinner. Live bands and a dance floor.

THE WINE BAR 20 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

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

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

VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin.

828.369.9890. Established here in in 1998. Come to Franklin and enjoy our laid back place, a place you can sit back, relax and enjoy our 62” HDTV. Our Pizza dough, sauce, meatballs, and sausage are all made from scratch by Vito. The recipes have been in the family for 50 years (don't ask for the recipes cuz’ you won't get it!) Each Pizza is hand tossed and made with TLC. You're welcome to watch your pizza being created.

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER or a man who has just won the North Carolina Literature Award, writer Gary Carden is quite somber.

At his home in Sylva last week, he rocked in a chair on the front porch, his trusty dog Jack lying nearby. He was recently informed of the award, but it seems bittersweet. His latest creation — and a catalyst for the achievement — is the play “Outlander,” a historical drama about famed writer Horace Kephart who chronicled the lives of hardscrabble Appalachian settlers in the early 1900s.

But the real prize, to Carden, remains elusive.

The real prize would be to present the play at Kephart Days in Bryson City, which, at the moment, was in full-swing. Carden playfully wondered if his invitation was lost in the mail.

But for now, he will have to go at it on his own, offering the play to the public on Sept. 25 at the Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City.

Relocating to the Great Smoky Mountains at the turn of the 20th century, Kephart became enamored with the mountains and its people, which resulted in his national bestseller Our Southern Highlanders. Kephart found criticism for singling out unfavorable characteristics of the isolated mountaineers, stereotyping the region through his colorful descriptions. Regardless, Kephart’s literary exploits in Appalachia eventually helped the effort to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

While the self-appointed inner-circle of Kephart experts tend to elevate the man into mythical status, Carden takes a more true-to-form approach.

Carden never intended to rip down the controversial icon of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Rather, he wanted to put the raw version of the man he sees — which exposes elements of alcoholism, bitterness and redemption from the Appalachian locals towards Kephart — alongside the re-enactments and celebration currently put on by those looking to preserve his legacy.

Writer Gary Carden sits on his porch in Sylva last week. Carden, who recently became the recipient of the 2012 North Carolina Literature Award, is bringing his play “Outlander,” about writer Horace Kephart, to the Swain County Center for the Arts on Sept. 25.

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Smoky Mountain News: Who was Horace Kephart?

Gary Carden: He was an outlander, which means he was from someplace else. He was a man who was not a product of our culture, but came and became a part of it and was instrumental in preserving it. We wouldn’t have the Great Smoky Mountains National Park if it wasn’t for him. And in the process of it, ironically, he alienated what few friends he had in this region because people lost their homes. I always thought he was a tragic figure. I think he came here with two options, either he was going to die here or change his life in some astonishing way. Kephart found a new life and mission here, to save the wilderness in this region.

SMN: How do you feel about not being invited to the Kephart celebration in Bryson City?

GC: Quite frankly it hurt my feelings, and I’m sure that’s what it was intended to do. I’ve been ignored every year that the event has taken place in Bryson City. I don’t think I wrote the play expecting it to be produced at Kephart Days, but

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No shortage of critics as Kephart play comes home when my play was scheduled to be produced in Bryson City, the Kephart Society not only didn’t invite me, but ignored the play also. No one likes to be ignored, and since my play has been well publicized, the Kephart Society knew it existed.

SMN: Were you ever part of the Kephart Society?

GC: I thought maybe there would be some sort of dialogue, one of these literary things where we would present two different perspectives of one topic and we’d both be there to talk about. I’ve never been a member of the Horace Kephart Society. I was never invited or contacted. I’m like Horace, in that I’m an outlander and in Swain County you can be judged an outlander if you’re from the next town.

SMN: The things you talk about that were part of his character, would Kephart have cared that those controversial things were brought to light?

GC: No, he wouldn’t have cared. He would find my play amusing. He might have even made some corrections. He has a flaw. All humanity has a flaw. You don’t need to produce him as a saint. In drama and in life, remarkable people are often flawed and their greatest success comes from over-

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“Outlander” will be hitting the stage at the Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25. The event is $5 and is open to the public. There will also be an earlier showing that day for the high school students. coming their flaws. Horace did that.

SMN: What’s the biggest misconception about Kephart?

GC: It’s probably our misconception.

Probably the Appalachian people’s misconception because the old school, and they’re dying out now, hated him because their granddaddy lost their land. One time, I went out to get my haircut at a barber. I asked the barber if he remembered Kephart. He said yes and pointed to an old man sitting in the corner. The old man disliked Kephart. The old man said, “I remember once I found him on the street. There was snow on his head. It was the dead of winter and he was passed out on the sidewalk. I drug him into a doorway

and got him out of the snow.” After a moment, he said, “I often regret that.”

SMN: It’s like Lance Armstrong. He has these flaws, but then again raised millions of dollars for cancer research. Kephart may have destroyed these towns and families, but also preserved the land.

GC: I have this scene in the play where a bunch of local characters, regulars who moved to town after they lost their land in the park and have a little house somewhere in Bryson City. They’re all sitting down at the Calhoun Inn, watching the tourists drive up to Deep Creek. They’ve had time to ponder what has happened. Belatedly, one of them says, “He was right, you know.” And it’s a long time before anybody says anything, then someone says, “Yes he was.” A small evil of losing our lands to create a greater thing, there will always be that park there forever, because of Horace. He did the right thing.

SMN: What’s the biggest misconception about you?

GC: That I’m his enemy, that I’ve set myself out to destroy him. My writing this play has been going on for ten years. The controversy about Horace has been going on almost a century. I’m disappointed. When all of this is over, I’ll make another attempt to get my play done again in Bryson City. I’ll probably keep doing that until somebody, the Kephart Society or the town of Bryson City, realizes that my play redeems Horace Kephart. That’s right, redeems him.the Arts on Sept. 25.

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Festival honors Appalachian heritage, national park history Sept. 15

The Swain County Public Schools Foundation is looking for people to participate in its first-ever Scarecrow Festival.

Handmade scarecrows will be on display from Oct. 6-20. All businesses, organizations and homeowners are invited to take part. The winning entries will be displayed at the Chili Fest on Oct. 20 at the Bryson City Train Depot.

The entrance fee is $25 per scarecrow.

All proceeds go directly into the Swain County Public Schools Foundation, which is responsible for rewarding scholarships for our Swain County students and grants for our teachers.

Entry forms can be picked up at the Swain County Chamber of Commerce or at the Swain County Public School Central Office. Attach a check made out to Swain County Public Schools Foundation and send it to: Laura Holden, Swain County School District, PO Box 2340, Bryson City, NC 28713 by Oct. 1.

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made much the same way it was produced a hundred or more years ago, using a horsepowered cane mill and wood-fired cooker.

This year’s event is dedicated to longterm volunteer David Higgins, who passed away in March of this year. Higgins donated more than 15,000 hours helping to maintain the open air Mountain Farm Museum at Oconaluftee.

The Mountain Farm Museum is located adjacent to the park’s Oconaluftee Visitor Center on US 441 in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, two miles north of Cherokee.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park will celebrate Appalachian folkways at its annual Mountain Life Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Mountain Farm Museum.

Activities during the free event will include hearth cooking, apple butter and apple cider making, blacksmithing, lye soap making, food preservation, broom making, quilting and chair bottoming. Artifacts and historic photographs from the park’s collection will be on display and local musicians will provide entertainment.

The centerpiece of the event will be the sorghum syrup demonstration. The syrup is

Greater Haywood County Chamber of Commerce is currently accepting applications for nonprofits and agribusinesses for the 24th annual Haywood County Apple Harvest Festival, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 20 on Main Street in Waynesville.

The annual festival, which celebrates the harvest season in Haywood County, features handmade arts and crafts, apples and apple products for sale. In addition, the festival also includes food vendors of all types, educational and information booths, authentic mountain music and dance groups and a children’s fun area.

Nonprofit businesses with an annual operation budget of $200,000 or less and agribusinesses are encouraged to apply.

Vendors will receive a 10x12 booth space at a reduced rate of $100. Limited space is available.

The deadline for applications is Sept. 21.

Booth space assignments for the festival will be announced after Oct. 5.

Greater Haywood County Chamber of Commerce, Haywood County Extension Service, and Haywood County Apple Growers present the Haywood County Apple Harvest Festival.

Applications are available at www.HaywoodAppleFest.com or 828.456.3021.

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A reception will be held before the performance at 6:30 p.m. Joe Sam Queen, Young Democrats and College Democrats are sponsoring the event. Tickets are $15.

“Granny D,” a 90-year-old in 2000, was considered a national heroine as she completed a walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. to bring attention to campaign finance reform.

Smith, noted for her Off-Broadway adaptation and performance of “Ivy Rowe” from Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies, has toured for 20 years with the works of Lee Smith. www.BarbaraBatesSmith.com.

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Haywood’s Got Talent competition finalists announced 16 acts have beat out the competition to go on to the finals of Haywood’s Got Talent at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Performing Arts Center.

The line up for the finals will include vocalist Holly Ann Harmon, harpist Samantha Mulholland, bluegrass folk group Productive Paranoia, vocalist Tracy Long, vocalist Lindsay Long, retro-vocalist Ben Tetreault, guitarist Helena Hunt, Raqshuraka Dance Company, “From Rock to Hip Hop” (featuring Forest, Meadow, River and Sky Byrd), singer/guitarist Matthew Curry, Broadway vocalist Ashlyn Combs, contemporary vocalist Tierney Leigh Cody, opera singer Heather Fergusen, classical vocalist Madison Garris, dancer Sara Kachensparger and country singer Ashley Wood.

Judges for the finals are Rod Leigh, Eric Martinez and Raymond Yarnutoski. The winner will take home $1,000.

Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for students. The Performing Arts Center is located at 250 Pigeon St. in downtown Waynesville. www.HartTheater.com or 828.456.6322.

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Celebrate ‘anti-art’ at Dada Festival For three days in September, the firstever Dada Festival at Western Carolina University brings together music, dance, the visual arts in the spirit of the early 20th-century art movement known as Dadaism.

Dadaism grew from the aftermath of World War I, which fostered a period of disillusionment with the conventions of society that spread to the arts.

Dada Festival events are: • A lecture by visiting scholar Suzanne Churchill, 5 p.m. Sept. 18 in Room 130 of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center.

• Dada chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18 in the Coulter Building recital hall.

• A showing of the film, “Games of the Unexpected: Fernand Léger and Dada Spectacle in Paris,” and talk by visiting scholar Anna Vallye at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 in Room 130 of the Bardo Arts Center.

• Reception and artist’s talk with Carrie Ann Baade at 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at the WCU Fine Art Museum.

• Dada orchestra concert and ballet at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in the Bardo Arts Center All events are free and open to the public.

The festival is sponsored by the WCU College of Fine and Performing Arts, with collaboration from the Department of English.

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ties, as well as new books, magazines, movies and audio books. TAG meetings also include socializing, arts and crafts, games and other activities. Many local schools count TAG meeting participation as volunteer time eligible for school credit. Jenifer Ross, a youth services staff member at the library, who makes jewelry and does fine metal work as a hobby, will lead the workshop.

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Jackson County Library in Sylva begins its new Teen Advisory Group (TAG) from 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 18 with a special steam punk jewelry and creations workshop.

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Duo, choir to be featured at Pickin’ in the Square Guitar duo Jazz Mountain and the male choir Men Macon Music will perform at a double-bill concert starting at 4 p.m. Sept. 16 on Franklin’s Town Square Gazebo on the corner of Main and Iotla streets.

Guitarists Paul Savaiko and Ray Olson perform together as Jazz Mountain, playing material from The Great American Songbook through varied jazz mediums including swing, ballads, bossas and blues, with some contemporary and original tunes added to the mix.

The award-winning Men Macon Music all-male chorus, directed by Tom Fisher, boasts more than two dozen voices and renders selections representing a broad spectrum of music, from show tunes to Americana to humorous numbers.

Attendees should bring a lawn chair.

This event is sponsored by the Arts Council of Macon County, with support from the Grassroots Arts Program of the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. www.ArtsCouncilofMacon.org or 828.524.7683.

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Beading, needlework focus of crafting demonstrations

Craft demonstrations at Dogwood Crafters in Dillsboro during the next week include beading by Nan Smith and punch needlework by Jeri Buek.

Smith will use beads to create spiders for Halloween decorations and demonstrate how to take beading beyond jewelry from 2-5 p.m. Sept. 13.

Buek will demonstrate miniature punch needlework, which captures the look of antique hooked rugs on a small scale, from 2-4 p.m. Sept. 18. Buek will have materials available for those wishing to try their hand at this craft and will offer instruction and assistance.

Smith and Buek’s works are for sale at the shop in Dillsboro. Dogwood Crafters is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with evening hours until 9 p.m. in October.

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That means you’re getting top-quality care for your bones at the MedWest-Haywood Osteoporosis Center.

The program is led by Kate Queen, MD, a rheumatologist with Mountain Medical Associates. Dr. Queen and the staff at the osteoporosis center are dedicated to the prevention, detection, and treatment of osteoporosis. For more information call 452-8850 or visit www.medwesthealth.org

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14 for its monthly art stroll.

Sylva Art Strolls, which are sponsored by Jackson County Visual Arts Association and the Chamber of Commerce, are held from 5-9 p.m. on the second Friday of each month through December.

Gallery 1 will host an artist reception that night for artists in its new multi-medium art show, SEASONS. The event will also include a make-and-take project, where visitors can paint tile coasters.

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Behling will present an exhibit, “Hot Wax & OctoLove,� showcasing new work that focuses on the whimsical nature of the ocean. Hot Wax refers to the encaustic technique that uses hot wax and pigment.

City Lights Cafe will feature an ongoing exhibit by Corina Pia and will present live music with singers Ansley & Margaret McAllister on acoustic guitar and harp.

Other participating venues include Survival Pride Clothing Store and Art Gallery, Nichols House Antiques and Collectibles, Papou’s Wine Shop, Lulu’s on Main Restaurant, Main Street Bakery, Mill & Main Restaurant, Hooper’s Restaurant, Pixie’s Emporium & Bistro and Guadalupe Cafe.

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Hornsby writes powerful songs from the heart that touch on several distinctly American traditions: pop, jazz, bluegrass, and ‘60s soul. He had his first hit in 1986 with “The Way It Is.� He continued to release albums and has backed bands to suit the genres in which he works. Most notably, Hornsby has toured as a temporary member of the Grateful Dead in the early ‘90s and collaborated on offshoot recordings and live shows.

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The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will hold auditions for its November production of the celebrated Broadway play “August Osage County” at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 24-25.

“August Osage County” is considered to be one of the greatest productions of the past decade, winning the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for best play. Set in the contemporary Midwest, it is the story a family coming together after a crisis. The play has roles for adults of all ages. This is a very large cast.

Community theater actors will be given scenes to read from the script. Anyone auditioning as a professional actor is expected to have a headshot, resume and prepared monologue. Anyone interested in working backstage on the production is also encouraged to come by during auditions to sign up.

Steve Lloyd is directing the production, and it will run two weeks beginning Nov. 9.

Auditions will be held in the Performing Arts Center at 250 Pigeon St. in Waynesville. www.HartTheatre.com.

Well-known Waynesville artist Jo Kelley will teach a one-day painting workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 6 at River’s Edge Studio in Asheville.

The class will teach burgeoning painters to express their emotional response to a landscape in their works. The emphasis will be on creating a luminous sky to invite the viewer in and allow the essence of the day to be shared in a captivating way. The demonstration will be done in oil. However, acrylic, watercolor and pastel are welcome.

Bring a small canvas, prepared board or other surface. Recommended sizes are 8x10 to 12x12, painting supplies and a frame if you have one. Easels and tables will be provided. The cost is $125 and the class is limited to eight people.

River’s Edge Studio is located at 191 Lyman St. Studio 310 in Asheville.

828.226.0549 or 828.776.2716 or e-mail jo@jokelley.com or fleta@fletamonaghan.com.

Award-winning Christian trio to perform Sept. 21

Phillips, Craig, and Dean, an award-winning contemporary Christian music trio, will be in concert at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts.

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Williams is an abstract experimental artist interested in expressing herself through color, texture and line. Students will be doing a collage applied with exciting colors and shapes. Various techniques will be shown and students may choose which technique is most suited for them.

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Macon County Public Library in Franklin will show a short film, “Living in Bear Country: Practical Advice on Living Responsibly in Bear Country” at 7 p.m. on Sept. 13.

A growing population of both bears and people in the area means that problems stemming from improper storage of garbage, barbecues and birdfeeders are growing.

Cynthia Strain, Anne Allison and Kathy Sherrard are wildlife educators affiliated with both Appalachian Bear Rescue and the B.E.A.R. Taskforce of the Western NC Alliance.

The trio will share information about black bears and explain how to reduce human and bear conflicts.

The B.E.A.R. Task Force joined forces with the Western North Carolina Alliance a year ago, with a mission to promote safe, harmonious coexistence between humans and bears.

The Friends of the Library is sponsoring the program. It is free, open to the public and appropriate for all ages.

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Randy Phillips, Shawn Craig and Dan Dean are all full-time pastors who have been performing together since 1991.

They have released 12 albums and 18 number one radio singles. They have sold more than two million albums and earned multiple Dove Awards. Group hits include, “Here I Am to Worship,” “Your Grace Still Amazes Me” and “Crucified with Christ.”

Tickets start at $15 and are available at the theatre’s box office at 1028 Georgia Road in Franklin. www.GreatMountainMusic.com or 866.273.4615.

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Mountain Heritage Day to include traditional foods competition

7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Sept. 25. Baked goods and whole grain recipe contest entries should be brought to the Mountain Heritage Center between 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 28.

Winners will be announced from the Balsam Stage at Mountain Heritage Day at 12:15 p.m.

For more information, 828.586.4009 or 828. 227.7129 or www.mountainheritageday.com.

A 5-kilometer foot race and other competitions will take place on the day of the festival. Full race details are available at www.claws.wcu.edu/sma/5K. Other competitions scheduled for Mountain Heritage Day include a chain saw contest, with registration beginning at 9 a.m. and competition starting at 10 a.m., and an old-fashioned attire contest for children and adults and a beard and moustache contest for men at 12:15 p.m. on the Balsam Stage.

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The foods competition will include divisions for canned goods, baked goods, extracted honey and “heritage foods,” plus the “Best in the West” whole grain recipe contest.

The foods contest is coordinated jointly by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service’s Jackson County Center and the Mountain Heritage Center. Ribbons will be awarded to the top three entries in youth and adult divisions and a grand champion will be selected from each of the divisions.

Canned goods, honey and heritage foods can be dropped off at the museum between

glass, clay, sculpture, fiber art, caning, woodcarving, ceramics and fine furniture.

Local musicians and street entertainers will perform throughout the day. Dillsboro restaurants and shops will be open.

Nonprofit Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and Jackson County Visual Artists Association organized the festival. The North Carolina Arts Council and Jackson County Arts Council supported the event.

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As fall nears, let’s clear the clutter y early September in these mountains the markers of autumn are very much with us. The cool nights diminish the whirring of air-conditioners; the raucous August chorus of tree frogs and crickets softens its music; a few stray leaves on the lawn remind us to have the furnace inspected or the chimneys cleaned.

For many of us, the fall brings a heightened sense of bustle and purpose, quickening our blood and rousing us to ambitions muted by summer’s more languorous pace.

Writer In my own case, one small ambition involves reducing the pile of books for review resting on my desk. Here are some trifles read over the past six weeks: two best-selling thrillers and two books of social commentary.

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••• Brad Thor’s novels, Blowback and Full Black, part of his best-selling line of books about former Seal Team 6 member Scot Harvath and his battles against enemies of the United States, stand a cut above many thrillers in their use of detail and in Thor’s willingness to caricature public figures. In Full Black, for example, the evil James Standing with his elaborate plans to reduce the United States to a third-world country, is clearly based on

George Soros. Harvath, who relentlessly pursues his enemies — the guy has an iron bladder and little need for sleep — is somewhat unusual among action heroes in that he openly and proudly professes his love of country.

Harvath is also a relentless critic of government expansion, though readers cannot fail to notice that he has spent his adult life either working for the federal government or for agencies hired by the government. Thor’s novels about Harvath are buttered-popcorn books: tasty, mindlessly consumed, empty of nutrition, easily digested, read in August and forgotten by Thanksgiving.

••• Sally Koslow’s Slouching Toward Adulthood: Observations from the Not-SoEmpty Nest (ISBN 978-0-670-02362-2, $25.95) offers insights both humorous and

grim into the relationships between parents and older children, the messy effects of the current economy on those relationships, and in particular the way hovering parents — helicopter moms and dads — are spoiling what

Koslow calls their adultescents.

Despite its title, Slouching Toward Adulthood isn’t just about the increasing numbers of young people who, having graduated from college, are returning home to live with their parents. Koslow does address that situation — here, writing from both research and from her personal experience, she will elicit nervous laughter from readers with children — but she digs deeper into the idea, now making the rounds, that 28 is the new 19. She points out that the very adults who so carefully guided their children through the college application process, who sometimes daily telephoned or texted their children while they were away at school, who spent so much time, energy and money to give them the right education, are often the source of the problem when it comes to that same young person leaving college with the idea of tackling the world on its own terms. She cites numerous cases of super-parents who are still interfering — helping would be their word — in the lives of “children” now 25, 26, 27 years old.

But Koslow, who is a progressive and not some conservative lamenting the falling away of old values, also takes the adultescents to task. Slouching Toward Adulthood ends by reminding twenty-somethings that choices in life have consequences. To wait until you are in your thirties to choose a career path or to find a helpmate and have children, Koslow warns, can have unintended outcomes unforeseen by the 26-year-old. She gently — perhaps too gently, as is the style of the boomer generation in the matter of passing instructions to their children — reminds young people that indulging whims to skip from job to job, to travel the world for several years, to put off commitments to career and children can lead to major disappoints on down the road.

••• Joan Duncan Oliver’s The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (and the World) (ISBN 9780-425-24087-8, 2012, $14) examines the meaning and place of “nice” in regard to people in today’s rough-and-tumble culture. After tracing the twisting etymology of nice, which

A meet, greet and eat with Johnnie Sue Myers

September edition of WNC magazine. Myers will discuss the book and offer samples of a few of the recipes featured in her book.

828.586.9499.

Johnnie Sue Myers, author of The Gathering Place, will visit City Lights Bookstore at 1 p.m. Sept. 16.

The Gathering Place is a cookbook featuring traditional Cherokee dishes, wild game preparation tips and recipes and Southern Appalachian cooking. The book has received regional and national attention being featured in an episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerman on the Travel channel and in the

New book addresses Washington, D.C. gridlock Author Jim Staggers will read from and discuss his book Messages To My Descendents — Please Fix Our Government from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Franklin library.

came into English in the 13th century from France as “nyce,” meaning foolish, Oliver sets out to demolish the myth that being nice doesn’t play well in a not-so-nice society.

Although she does include a chapter titled “Too Nice For Your Own Good,” the rest of her book is a compilation of data, reports, and

personal reminiscences advocating, as her subtitle states, the value of compassion and civility. She examines the character traits we associate with nice people: good manners, some level of compassion for others, a sense of justice and fair play, respect. In chapters on manners, love, the workplace, and digital communications, she makes the case that despite what we read and hear in some of the media, “warmth and friendliness are making inroads” in our world.

Given that we are now entered upon that season in American politics when nice will go missing in action until November, The Meaning of Nice is a timely reminder to the rest of us to step back, listen to our fellow citizens with whom we may disagree, and offer, if not compassion, then at least civility.

(Jeff Minick is a teacher and writer. He can be reached at ashevillelatin@charter.net.)

Staggers is a former Chief Operating Officer and vice president at APL Corporation who retired to Franklin five years ago. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in chemistry and attended Syracuse University to study finance and business management.

The impetus for writing the book is his frustration with the gridlock in Washington D.C., and he uses his experience as a businessman to describe his concerns.

The Macon County Public Library is located at 149 Siler Farm Road in Franklin.

828.524.3600 or email concernedgrandparents361@gmail.com.

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When disaster hits, horses will still hold their own Canton equestrian teaches utilitarian side of horsemanship

BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER ill it be a bomb, an oil shortage, energy grid damage or an electromagnetic pulse that renders America’s modern modes of transportation useless?

Or will it be the collapse of modern society or simply the collapse of your bank account under the pressure of mounting fuel costs that removes the option of driving a car from the transportation equation?

Whichever reason it is, horse trainer Catherine Hunter knows where she’ll go: to the stable.

Hunter, who has a small horse farm just outside of Canton, has been riding horses for 52 years — and she’s 54. But what started as trade of professional riding, jumping and racing, passed down to her from her mother, recently took a new twist.

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Hunter has recently come under in the umbrella of the survivalist and preparedness circles — a crowd that is vigilant about preparing for a future, and as they believe an imminent one, when people will have to rely on the traditional skills of our parents, grandparents and ancestors for survival, rather than the support of modern society.

Hunter’s contribution is her broad equestrian knowledge and experience with horses in the field.

At a three-day survivalist symposium coming to the Haywood Fairgrounds at the end of September, Hunter will put on a class called “Be Ready with Horses” that will cover the utilitarian uses of a horse for work, transportation and even defense. (Hunter formerly trained police horses.)

The press release for the class totes the eye-grabbing title: “An EMP won’t stop your horse.”

EMP is the abbreviation for an “electromagnetic pulse” —

Catherine Hunter stands with her horse Count of War, on her horse farm near Canton. Hunter offers classes specializing in the uses and care of horses after cars are no longer available.

a charge in the atmosphere, presumably detonated as an act of war but possibly caused by a cosmic event, that would knock out everything from telecommunications to the energy grid.

Although the science is still debatable on whether an EMP would actually stop a car from running, the point is obvious.

Any number of other calamities, such as gasoline shortage or roadway destruction, would substitute.

And, in the aftermath of such a society-altering event, you would have a choice, as Hunter plainly put it.

“You’re going to be on foot or on a horse,” she said. “And being on a horse is so much better.”

She listed a litany of the advantages of having a horse, post-car era. They can plow gardens, draw a wagon to market, allow you to escape dangerous situations at speeds of 25 or 35 miles per hour and allow you to cover long distances of 50 miles per day if need be. And, for long-distance communication in light of the collapse of the communications grid, you’d better have a fresh supply of carrier pigeons or a willing horse to take you the distance to deliver the message yourself.

Hunter is no stranger when it comes to traveling long-distance by horseback either. In 2004 she rode her horse, Count of War, named after its triple crown winning ancestors War Admiral and Count Fleet, 900 miles from upstate South Carolina to ground zero in New York City. She said she did it to promote peace and honor U.S. troops following the collapse of the twin towers.

But, the experience also got her thinking about how different it was to travel by horse rather than automobile.

“A horse doesn’t need gasoline,” Hunter said. “They can graze on the side of the road.”

This ancient formula is the same one that proved successful for the war-ready Mongol soldiers when they traveled great distances on their small horses to conquer much of Asia.

They relied on the horses for everything from its speed and endurance to its blood and milk for sustenance.

Although Hunter doesn’t teach the tactic of cutting slits in a horse and then drinking its blood, such as the Mongol soldiers were believed to do on long treks after stores had vanished, she does teach their riding style.

She said the method of forward riding, which she claims was passed down from the steppe horsemen, allows for more control of the horse and improves cooperation between the horse and the rider. She said the riding style is excellent for riding speed and distances over terrain and outside of a competitive riding arena, making the style a perfect utilitarian fit for after society collapses.

But, she said that art of riding — as well as other riding styles and general knowledge about equines — has been on the decline since after World War II when the United States and other first-world countries accelerated their levels of industrialization and the agrarian components of society began to disappear.

She said at that point horses finished a transition that had begun earlier: transforming from a beast of burden to an animal largely used for pleasure or the screens of

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Can you survive a collapse of modern society?

Learn dozens of useful survival skills during the Heritage Life Skills symposium at the Haywood County Fairgrounds September 28 - 30.

The weekend of workshops and classes is designed to teach people the skills they need to be self-reliant should society as we know it collapse — whether it’s due to disease, war, a meteor strike, natural disaster, implosion of technology or a crash of the energy grid.

Two big names in the survivalist circuit will be speaking at the event on Saturday, including the renown author of One Second After, William Forstchen; and author of Disaster Preparedness for EMP Attacks and Solar Storms and the Prepper’s Instruction Manual, Arthur Bradley.

Classes at the life heritage skills event will include instruction such as how to butcher a hog, fertilize with worms, design and connect solar systems, use basic weapons and self-defense maneuvers.

Workshops will also cover canning and dehydrating food, dutch and sun oven cooking, bread making, gunsmith and weapon maintenance, candle and soap making, knot tying, food storage, herbal salves, tinctures, spinning and weaving, medicinal plants and fire starting.

The event is organized and sponsored by Carolina Readiness Supply in Waynesville. Cost of the three day event is $100 for adults and $50 for children. Free RV parking and tent camping will be available.

Go to www.carolinareadiness.com, or stop by the store on Montgomery Street in downtown Waynesville, or call 828.456.5310.

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The Jackson County Public Library in downtown Sylva will host Cooperative Extension agent Christy Bredenkamp for a free seminar on ginseng production for homeowners who desire to grow “sang.”

Topics covered will include state regulations for growing and hunting “sang,” plant physiology, present and historical use of ginseng and comparing Asian versus American ginseng. The major emphasis of the program

North Carolina State University is hosting a workshop on organic broccoli production from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 19 at the Mountain Research Station on Test Farm Road in Waynesville.

Learn about organic broccoli production including insect management, post-harvest techniques, and marketing. View 28 broccoli varieties and help rate which one is best, see which ones are most insect resistant, heat tolerant, and taste best.

To ensure that there will be a lunch, attendees should email Emiy_Bernstein@ncsu.edu.

This workshop is free and open to the public. 828.684.3562.

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horse in an uncertain future when a veterinarian might not be a phone call away, is a contribution she believes is important.

“I am blessed with the skills to help others,” Hunter said. “People have used horses for transportation, communication, work and defense for ages. If something does happen, that will be the first place they turn.”

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Everyone who woke up to 48 degrees Fahrenheit this morning knows that the days of “butts in the creek” are quickly fading for this year. Planning for the inevitable and being parents of kids who are, if not part fish at least amphibian, we had plans for a last wet hurrah last weekend (Sept. 7-9.)

The Wamplers, the Tordas and we, parents of a group of “play-date” kids ages 6 to 11, who have been together since pre-school days, had reserved the U.S. Forest Service’s Balsam Lake Lodge for the weekend. Now we had this same idea last year and rented the same Balsam Lake Lodge. Last year a week or so before our reservation date, the Forest Service called to inform us that the dam at Balsam Lake had broken and the lake was dry. So, sadly, we cancelled and had to forego our “last Sunset at the double-decker dock at Lake Wylie. splash” last year.

Lake Wylie VRBO photo But the idea lingered through the winter and this April we reserved But Lake Wylie is the second oldest lake Balsam Lake Lodge again. My wife and I on the Catawba River Chain, created in both had a long Labor Day weekend and I 1904. And there is little doubt that after kept encouraging her to load the kids up more than 100 years Lake Wylie is a lake — and take a drive to Balsam Lake to check out not a river ecosystem. And even though it’s the digs. Finally on Labor Day afternoon she a lake in the shadow of the “Queen City” it’s acquiesced and we drove up. You probably wooded shoreline and many coves create saw this coming — the lake was dry. habitat for an abundance of wildlife. We Well, the haranguing with the Forest saw deer and had flyovers from bald eagles Service who did not call this year to let us and ospreys. Turtles and water snakes came know the lake was dry and who, at first, up to the dock to investigate all the splashwanted to charge us a night’s rent is an ing. There were kingfishers, great blue unpleasant chapter that will be deleted herons, green herons, red-shouldered from this narrative. hawks, red-tailed hawks, turkey vultures, But we were determined to have our black vultures and fish crows all seen “last splash” this year and a feverish three and/or heard from the dock. days of Internet surfing, emails and teleAnd there was a lake — a lake with a phone calls resulted in two nights and three double-decker dock. The top level was days at Lake Wylie. Lake Wylie is one of 11 about 15 feet above water and the perfect lakes along the Catawba River Chain that launching pad for kids wanting to make a Duke Energy owns and operates for power splash. The water was lake water warm, production. The lake serves as part of the which was a good thing because except for border between North and South Carolina. eating and sleeping the kids were in the Our rental was on the North Carolina side water the entire stay. just south of Charlotte.

There’s not much like kids and water I am not a fan of power company lakes and wildlife to bring you back to what’s real nor dams on free-flowing rivers. But I know about this existence. And I truly believe that they’re here and know that for the foreseethe more time families spend together outable future they will be here. And from my doors, the stronger that reality gets. time growing up, fishing, swimming and (Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He camping at or in naturally-formed lakes in can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.)

Louisiana, I have to admit I do enjoy spendHollywood. Though Hunter has been teaching riding for most of her life in the pleasure driven areas of racing and jumping — she has the broken bones to prove it — and has also appeared in movies and Civil War reenactments with her horses, the addition of a heritage horse skills class, one that teaches riding technique as well as how to care for a

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Lake Wylie does little to salve my ambivalence towards power company lakes.

It is home to the Catawba Nuclear Generating Station and the G. G. Allen Steam Station, a coal-fired electricity generating facility. You could see the tower from the steam station after a couple of turns around the road through the subdivision that led to our rental.

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Celebrate Friends’ Day with Friends of the Smokies on Sept. 15 10 percent of Mast General Store sales in Waynesville on Sept. 15 will go to the Friends of the Smokies to help protect the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in significant, tangible ways.

“Friends Day” will help support the organization that has raised more than $37 million to help preserve and protect the park. Friends of the Smokies contributed more than $1 million last year to fund Park needs, including the ongoing battle to suppress the hemlock woolly adelgid across the Smokies, conservation of black bears in the backcountry, and management of the elk herd in Cataloochee. Friends also provided more than $275,000 for curriculum enhancement for the Parks as Classrooms environmental education program that serves more than 12,000 students in schools bordering the park.

Representatives from Friends of the Smokies will be on hand at the Mast Stores in Waynesville on Sept. 15. They’ll share information about projects the Friends are currently undertaking to preserve the character of the most visited national park in the United States.

Restaurants take part in Parkway fundraiser The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation will hold the first annual Plates for the Parkway event on Sept. 18 in which local restaurants will donate 10 percent of a day’s revenue to the foundation.

Restaurants from communities along the 469 miles of the Parkway are invited to participate, and current participants stretch from the top of the Parkway in Waynesboro, Va. to Sylva. Participating restaurants include Sylva’s City Lights Café and Guadalupe Café. A current list of all participating restaurants can be found at www.platesfortheparkway.org.

“There are so many wonderful restaurants in the communities along the Parkway,” said Christy Bell, development director for the foundation. “For visitors, this event highlights some of these unique places and gives them the opportunity to benefit what brings many of them here in the first place: the Parkway. For those of us lucky enough to live near the Parkway, it’s a fun way to support this amazing place while dining out at a favorite restaurant.”

Restaurants may sign up to participate through Sept. 14. Interested restaurants may contact Christy Bell at cbell@brpfoundation.org for more information.

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Local adventurers share their stories at Jackson Library The adventure stories of several Jackson the world.

County residents is the subject of a new colThe participants will share the story of lection of exhibits and a program at 7 p.m. why they went on their journey and how it on Sept. 13 at the Jackson County Library in changed them. A question and answer periSylva. od with the audience will follow. Pam “In, Out, Through and Back Again: Meister, curator of the Mountain Heritage Smoky Mountain Journeys” will feature local journey stories, such as the family journey of the Caldwell family out of Cataloochee Valley for the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the journeys made

by Cherokee baskets and their makers.

The exhibits were prepared by WCU students in Dr Jesse Swigger’s “Introduction to Museums” class and are on display in the glass cases throughout the library.

Other displays in the exhibit were created by Friends of the Library volunteers and feature local adventurers who have a journey story to tell. Those Jackson County residents will be the featured speakers at the Thursday evening event at Gracia Slater of Sylva, who has hiked all 800 miles of trail in the Community Room. the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is part of a lineThe panel includes: up of local residents who have amazing outdoor experiences ■ Ben Bridgers, who swam the Hellespont in Turkey. under their belt. Donated photo ■ Jeremy Wilson, who bicycled the Trail of Tears.

■ Gracia Slater, who hiked all 900 miles of Center at WCU, will moderate. trails in the Great Smoky Mountains The Library’s Journey Stories display is National Park. part of a larger Journey Stories exhibition ■ A.J. Rowell, who bicycled from Prudhoe that will open at WCU’s Mountain Heritage Bay, Alaska to Cullowhee.

Center on Sept. 29 and will be on display ■ Jay Coward, who climbed Mt. McKinley. until Nov. 9. The project is a traveling ■ Judi Whatley and Aaron Whatley, who exhibit from Museum on Main Street, a hiked the Appalachian Trail. program of the Smithsonian Institution in ■ Chad Hallyburton, who runs ultra collaboration with the North Carolina marathons.

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Inaugural Tuck River Festival set for Sept. 16 The inaugural Tuckasegee River Festival — “Fiddler on the River” — is sponsored by the Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River and will be held from 2-6 p.m. on Sept. 16 at the Dillsboro Inn. Surrounded by three river front parks, the Dillsboro Inn will serve as the base camp for viewing, learning and celebrating the redevelopment of the Tuckasegee Dam removal. The family oriented event will begin with a hot dog picnic lunch ($5 a plate) and bake sale benefit/WATR membership drive. There will also be optional hikes on the Discovery Trails at Monteith Farmstead Park and then a concert by the New Broad River Band from Asheville.

The Tuckasegee River watershed supplies the drinking water and ecosystem foundation for Swain and Jackson counties. WATR is a grassroots organization working to improve the water quality and habitat of the Tuckasegee River Basin.

“What happens upstream, downstream and all around the watershed impacts all of us directly,” says WATR Executive Director Roger Clapp.

WATR’s three focus areas are education, stewardship and recreation. The new riverfront parks and the Monteith Homestead total 30 acres, and good stewardship of these areas is one of WATR’s areas of emphasis.

“We are looking for volunteers and donations to help with this beneficial service to the community,” said T.J. Walker, a member of WATR. 828.507.9144 or www.watrnc.org.

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Kids in the Creek invites community to take part outdoors

The 15th annual Kids in the Creek program for Haywood County eighth-graders will be held Sept.17-19 at the Canton Recreation Park.

Kids in the Creek is Haywood Waterway’s most important education program. It is a hands-on investigation of water quality where students rotate through four stations: fish, benthic (bottom dwelling) insects, water chemistry and the Enviroscape watershed demonstration. Students learn about a variety of methods to evaluate water quality and the ecological interactions that occur within a watershed.

The event will go from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. More than 600 students, teachers and local and regional instructors take part in the one-of-a-kind program in Haywood County. Volunteers will receive a Kids in the Creek T-shirt featuring this year’s original, student-art design, as well as snacks and water.

The public is invited to the event. Bethel Middle School students are scheduled for Monday morning. Canton students will get in the water on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. Waynesville Middle School students are scheduled for afternoons on Monday through Wednesday.

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Potentially fatal disease could pose risk to deer An outbreak of a disease spread by biting gnats has turned up deer populations in several foothill counties.

N.C. Wildlife Commission biologists first began seeing deer afflicted with the disease this summer in Wilkes and Surry counties. In August, reports of the disease also began coming from Caldwell, Burke, McDowell, Rutherford and Buncombe counties.

The disease has no human health implications, but is one of the most significant endemic viral and sometimes fatal diseases of white-tailed deer in the southeastern U.S. Spread by a biting midge (or gnat), the virus enters deer through the blood stream. Common symptoms include emaciation, loss of motor control, fever, lameness and swelling of the neck and head. Infected deer often seek relief near bodies of water, resulting in a higher frequency of dead deer near creeks, rivers and ponds than on adjacent uplands.

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National Hunting and Fishing Day will be celebrated with family-oriented outdoor events at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sept. 22.

Hands-on, interactive exhibits and demonstrations give participants a chance to try their own hand at fishing, outdoor cooking, archery and pellet rifle range.

It is one of several events statewide sponsored by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission that day.

Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education is located off U.S. 276 in Transylvania County, south of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Pitch in for the Big Sweep along your local waterways

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Volunteers will rescue creeks and rivers from a tangle of accumulated trash that builds up bugs in the Pigeon River. along the banks and in the water during the upcoming Big Sweep. Now in its 25th year, all 50 states and more than 90 countries participate in the all-volunteer Big Sweep effort.

In Haywood County, the Big Sweep will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, along Richland Creek in Waynesville, led by Haywood Community College students in the Natural Resources Department and the Haywood Waterways Association.

Haywood Waterways is also coordinating volunteers to take on creeks and streams in their own neck of the woods that same day.

“Big Sweep is a great way to get involved with an event that has a huge impact on water quality in Haywood County and meet your Adopt-A-Stream commitment to do that yearly cleanup of your adopted waterway,” said Christine O’Brien, coordinator for Haywood Waterways.

To learn more about forming a Big Sweep team, email christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or call 828.226.8565.

To join the Richland Creek team led by HCC students, meet at 9 a.m. in the Bi-Lo’s Grocery Store parking lot off Russ Avenue to divide into teams. 828.627.4564.

■ The Big Sweep in Jackson County will be Oct. 6 along the Tuckasegee River. 828.508.3377.

Last year’s Big Sweep volunteers in Haywood County hauled multiple loads ■ The Big Sweep in Swain County will be Oct. 6. 828.488.8803. of trash out of Richland Creek in Waynesville. Donated photo ■ The Big Sweep in Macon County was held in August.

Land Trust offers unique glimpse at unique Whiteside Cove property The Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust and John Warren will lead an Eco Tour to Timber Ridge, part of the Warren Estate conservation easement near Highlands, on Sept. 20. Eco tours are $35 for new friends of the land trust and include a guided tour, lunch and an HCLT membership.

The land is of significant historical importance to Jackson County.

In 1820 Barak Norton, one of the early pioneers to this region, settled on the picturesque property located in Whiteside Cove. Sarah Whiteside Norton, the first white child of settlers in Jackson County, was born there.

In 1934 James E. Warren purchased the 300 acres and built a chestnut log cabin there. In 1971 James’ grandson, John, and his wife Marsha moved back to the area and began restoration of the family cabin, which had been deserted for 20 years. After three years work, they made it their home. At James’ death, the 300-acre estate was left in a family trust.

John and Marsha placed 132 acres into a conservation easement with Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust (HCLT). The Warren Estate is home to Polly’s Branch, part of the headwaters of the Chattooga River, a National Wild and Scenic River. Numerous rare and endangered plant species have been identified on the land, and the surrounding

forest serves as wildlife habitat for many animals, birds and fish that will remain protected in perpetuity.

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Farms across Western North Carolina will welcome the public to traipse through their fields, barns and greenhouses during the annual Farm Tour put on by Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project Sept. 22-23.

The self-guided tour offers a chance for locals and visitors alike to learn how food grows, taste farm-fresh products, interact with farm animals, and meet the community’s food producers.

There are a whopping 35 farms on the tour in several counties. Along with the standard small vegetable farmers, there are several specialty farms, including apple orchards, vineyards, blueberry farms, organic meat, bee farms and herb gardens including Sunburst Trout in Haywood County.

Passes are $25 per carload in advance.

For more information, go to www.asapconnections.org.

ASAP plans to launch a new local food app, entitled Appalachian Grown and modeled after their Local Food Guide, just before the big event. The app will connect folks with area farms and businesses that support local food.

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Trout fishermen from across the country will convene in Asheville this weekend for the Trout Unlimited annual conference Sept. 14-16.

Friday’s speakers and conference topics will focus on Trout Unlimited current initiatives and projects around the nation.

Saturday will focus on major environmental issues facing the country that have implications for trout populations, with a primary focus on energy policy. Since trout need cool water to survive, global warming could affect some brook trout populations. Fracking and mining are also on the agenda.

To kick-off the conference on Thursday, a conservation tour will showcase success stories of brook trout restoration and watershed renewal.

The tour will venture to Graveyard Fields along the Blue Ridge Parkway, where a stem of the upper Pigeon hosts a healthy population of brook trout thanks to efforts to preserve the geneticallyunique Southern Appalachian strain and restoration of native habitats. The tour will also stop at Lake Logan at the base of Cold Mountain in Haywood County, also a conservation success story, to enjoy a little fishing. On Wednesday, conference goers arriving early will take in some flyfishing on local rivers, including a fishing trip on the Tuckasegee River in Jackson County and West Fork of the Pigeon in Haywood County. For more information on joining in on some or all of the programs, go to www.tu.org/events/2012annual-meeting.

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BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Mix & Mingle with the Maggie Valley and Haywood County chambers of commerce from 5 to 7 p.m. Wed. Sept. 12, at the Maggie Valley Club. This casual after hours event is a valuable opportunity to network with members of both the Haywood County and Maggie Valley Chamber of Commerce. 456.3021. www.Haywoodnc.com.

• A basic internet class will be held at 5:45 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 12, in the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Limited to 15 people. 586.2016 or www.fontanalib.org.

• An open house will be held Saturday, Sept. 15, at Western Carolina University for prospective college students and their families and friends. To register and for more information, visit openhouse.wcu.edu or call the Office of Undergraduate Admission at 227.7317 or toll free 877.928.4968.

• A free seminar, Marketing for the Craftsperson & Artist Part I, will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Student Center of Haywood Community College. Marketing for the Craftsperson Part II will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Friday, Sept. 14, at the same location. 627.4512.

• A seminar, Learn How to Fight Business Fraud, will be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Waynesville Town Hall Board Room. RSVP to downtownwaynesville@charter.net or 456.3517.

• The Haywood Chamber of Commerce will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for J.M. Teague Engineering at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 525 N. Main St., Waynesville.

• A free 90-minute computer class on basic email will be held at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the Jackson County Public Library. Register at 586.2016.

• The Small Business Center at Haywood Community College will offer a free seminar, How to Write a Business Plan, from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, in the Student Center at HCC. 627.4512 to register.

• A Western North Carolina Career Expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the National Guard Armory, 1824 Jones Cove Road, Clyde, NC (adjacent to Haywood Community College). Veteran and civilian job seekers invited. Bring plenty of resumes.

456.6061.

• The annual fall banquet for Western Carolina University’s accountancy program will be held at 6 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 21, at the Gateway Club in Waynesville.

Featured speaker will be Brian Fox, founder of Capital Confirmation Inc., which created Confirmation.com. The banquet is free for WCU master of accountancy students and members of the WCU chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, and $35 per person for all others. For reservations, contact Dona Potts, 227.3383 or dpotts@wcu.edu by Friday, Sept. 14.

• Haywood Community College will hold a Sawmill Operation Auction at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22 at the college. The auction will include the sale of a complete band sawmill, circular sawmill, and planer operation.

Thad Woods Auction is handling the sale. Pictures available at http://thadwoodsauction.com/. Preview day to view available equipment will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday Sept. 21. 421.4174.

COMMUNITY & EVENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS • The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian’s Qualla Housing Authority will host a celebration from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at 687 Acquoni Road, Cherokee, to honor 50 years of service to the tribe. The public is invited to attend. The event includes tribal

raffles.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted. leaders, public officials, lunch and refreshments throughout the day.

• The annual Mountain Life Festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Mountain Farm Museum, two miles north of Cherokee, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The event preserves the legacy of Appalachian folkways, and serves as a tribute to the many families who lived on lands that would later become the Park. 497.1904.

• The Smoky Mountain Flying Club is looking for pilots who want to own a share of a club airplane and participate in flying the plane. The club will be purchasing a Light Sport Aircraft for use by its members at an affordable rate. The next meeting will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15th, at the Jackson County Airport in Sylva.

Contact Jim Sottile, 349.0322.

• The Smoky Mountain Knitting Guild will host an Afternoon Extravaganza to benefit the Good Samaritan Clinic at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the HART Theatre, 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville. Event to feature Sound of Music ballet performed by MusicWorks and a fashion show of knitted items. Tickets are $25 and available by phone at 246.4651 or 691.8409.

400.4545. For information about the Good Samaritan Clinic, www.gschaywood.org.

• A cornhole tournament will be held starting at 9 a.m.

Sept. 15 at the Yellowhill Outdoor Gym on Acquoni Road. $40 per team, double elimination tournament. Bring your own bags or rent theirs. Cash prizes will be awarded. 828.736.0352 or 828.736.2410.

• MedWest-Harris is hosting a reception to welcome new physicians from 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18, in the front lobby of MedWest-Harris in Sylva. medwest@westcare.org.

• MedWest-Haywood is hosting a reception to welcome new physicians from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept.

20, in the classroom at the MedWest Health & Fitness Center on the MedWest-Haywood campus in Clyde. medwest@westcare.org.

• The Macon Aero Modelers will hold its third annual Charity Fly-In at 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, and at 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, at the club’s flying field, about eight miles south of Franklin on Tessentee Road in Otto.

Admission is 10 cans of non-perishable food or $5 donation per car for parking. All profits and food will be donated to CareNet, a non-profit organization which collects food for the needy. The Fly-In will feature all manner of radio controlled air planes and helicopters.

Hot dog and barbecue lunches available.

• Haywood County’s 2012 North Carolina Big Sweep is set for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. Volunteers willing to help clean Richland Creek are to meet in the Bi-Lo grocery store parking lot off Russ Ave., Waynesville. Haywood Community College students in the Natural Resource Department and the Haywood Waterways Association will lead the cleanup efforts.

Shannon Rabby, 627.4564.

• Angela Rose, executive director of Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment, will speak at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Grand room of A.K. Hinds University Center at Western Carolina University. Rose’s presentation is part of the university’s annual Take Back the Night campaign to help educate and empower students to protect themselves and others from sexual assault. sacarter@wcu.edu or 227.2617.

• The Canada Volunteer Fire Department will hold its 22nd annual barbecue fundraiser at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29. Bluegrass, gospel singing, cake walk and

• 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) starting in September. Drop off locations will include Cullowhee United Methodist Church and Sylva Wal-Mart.

BLOOD DRIVES • The American Red Cross will host the Bethel Elementary School Blood Drive from 7:30 a.m. to noon Friday, Sept. 21, at 4700 Old River Road, Canton.

646.3448. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing to win a $3,000 gift card.

• The American Red Cross will host the North Hominy Community Blood Drive from 2 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, at North Hominy Community Center, 2670 Newfound Road, Canton. Call Janice Liner at 648.3220 for more information or to schedule an appointment. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing to win a $3,000 gift card.

• The American Red Cross will host the Ratcliff Cove Baptist Church Blood Drive from 2:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, at 1300 Ratcliff Cove Road, Waynesville. Call Shirley Edwards at 456.7558 for more information or to schedule an appointment. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $3,000 gift card.

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 but shorter routes are possible. Pre-registration requested. 314.703.8611.

• A fall risk screening clinic will be offered at the Cashiers-Glenville Fire Department station from 8:45 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 27. Call 587.8279 to schedule an appointment.

• Free balance and knee pain screenings will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 24, and from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, at MedWest-Swain Rehabilitation Services on the MedWest-Swain campus in Bryson City. Licensed physical therapists will conduct screenings. 488.4009.

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• The American Red Cross will host the Lowe’s of Waynesville Blood Drive from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 24, at 100 Liner Cove Road, Waynesville.

Call 456.9999 for more information or to schedule an appointment. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $3,000 gift card.

• A mandatory coaches meeting for the Men¹s Fall Wooden Bat League will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 at the Jackson County Recreation Center. Team registration open until Sept. 13. League play starts Thursday, Sept. 20, at Mark Watson Park in Sylva. Entry Fee: $425. 293.3053 or www.jacksonnc.org/parks-andrecreation.

• The American Red Cross will host the Clyde Elementary School Blood Drive from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Friday Sept. 28, at 4182 Old Clyde Road, Clyde. Call the school office to schedule an appointment. All presenting donors will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win a $3,000 gift card.

• Registration is open until Monday, Sept. 24, for Church 4-on-4 Flag Football. League play starts Oct. 1 at the Cullowhee Recreation Park. Entry fee: $130.

Mandatory coaches meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept.

24. 293.3053 or www.jacksonnc.org/parks-and-recreation.

HEALTH MATTERS • Macon County Public Health will hold a flu shot from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Blue Cross Blue Shield exhibit bus at the Macon County Fair. $25. 349.2081.

• A non-political educational symposium on the Affordable Care Act will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept.

14, in the community room of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Sandy Goss, R.N. is the guest speaker.

Goss was born and raised in England and practiced in the British health care system before moving to the United States. Dr. Dan Eichenbaum will host.

• A falling prevention program will be held from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 17, in the Heritage Room at the Jackson County Department on Aging office in Sylva.

The program is being offered in conjunction with the Department on Aging and the nutrition site. Sign up by Friday, Sept. 14 by calling 631.8045. General info, 631.8033.

• Register for Church Co-Rec Volleyball between Sept. 4 and Oct. 2. Entry fee: $175. League play begins Tuesday, Oct. 9, at Cullowhee Recreation Center.

Mandatory coaches meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the Recreation Center in Cullowhee. 293.3053 or www.jacksonnc.org/parks-and-recreation.

• Registration for 4-on-4 Flag Football ends Tuesday, Sept. 25. League play starts Tuesday, Oct. 2. Mandatory coaches meeting 6:30 p.m. Sept. 25. 293.3053 or www.jacksonnc.org/parks-and-recreation.

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department offers walking program for those with arthritis from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Free to members. 456.2030 or recprograms@townofwaynesville.org.

THE SPIRITUAL SIDE

• A free hour-long balance improvement exercise class will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in room 134 of the Jackson County Senior Center. 586.4944 to sign up.

• First Baptist Church of Clyde, 227 Main St., will celebrate Homecoming at Sunday, Sept. 16. Sunday School starts at 9:45 a.m. and the worship celebration at 11 a.m. Retired Methodist minister Carroll Lindsey and Dr. Michael Brown, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winthrop Harbor, Ill., will lead the worship service.

627.2201.

• Western North Carolina Out of the Darkness Community Walk will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Jackson County Recreation Complex in Cullowhee. The goal of the event is to raise awareness about suicide, honor those that have been loved and lost, and raise funds for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The walk will be a three-mile circuit,

• The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer a trip for seniors to DuPont State Forest Wednesday, Sept. 12. Leave from Waynesville Recreation Center at 10:30 a.m., return by 4 p.m. See three of the

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top 20 best waterfalls in Western North Carolina. Bring a snack. Lunch at 2 p.m; bring lunch money. $10 members WRC; $13, non-members. Register at 456.2030 or email recprograms@townofwaynesville.org.

• Haywood County Arts Council’s Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program will hold student registration from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Canton Middle School, 60 Penland St. Canton. JAM offers oldtime mountain music to children in fourth grade and older. Lessons are $90 for the full school year, fees must be paid in advance, and classes meet from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays from Sept. 25 through May 2013. info@haywoodarts.org or by calling 452.0593.

Literary (children) • Story time (grandpas and grandmas) will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Family Night (campfires and s’mores themes) will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Story time (how to babysit a grandpa) will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Story time with Miss Sally (Grandma Moses and her art) will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Story time with the Rotary Readers (harvest theme) will be held at 11 a.m. Monday Sept. 17, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• A teen craft program (Steampunk jewelry making theme) will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016 • A ginseng program will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Jackson County Public Library.

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• Story time (talk like a pirate theme) will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Family night (PAWS to read with a four-footed friend) will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

POLITICAL GROUP EVENTS & LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Dems • Haywood County Democratic Party Headquarters at 286 Haywood Square, Waynesville, is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. 452.9607 or www.haywooddemocrats.org.

• The Haywood County Democratic Executive Committee meets at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Monday of

• Jackson County Democratic Women meet at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of every month at Democratic Headquarters 500 Mill St., Sylva. 631.1475 or jacksondems.com.

GOP • The Macon County Republican Party will hold its September general meeting at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept.

15, at The Boiler Room Restaurant in Franklin. Guest speaker will be N.C. candidate for Superintendent for Public Instruction John Tedesco. A brunch buffet is available for $12.50 per person. This meeting will be the last meeting for Chairman Chris Murray. 421.2191.

• The Macon County Republican Party Executive Committee will hold a special meeting at 10 a.m.

Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Boiler Room restaurant in Franklin, to elect an interim chairman and vice chairman of the Macon County Republican Party. Chairman Chris Murray will resign at the adjournment of the Sept. 15 meeting. 421.2191.

• The North Jackson County Republican monthly meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, at Sylva Republican Headquarters Office, 58 D Sunrise Park, Sylva. For Jackson County GOP information call Ralph Slaughter, Jackson County GOP Chair at 743.6491, email jacksonctygop@yahoo.com or visit the website www.jacksoncountygop.com.

•The South Jackson County Republican will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the Cashiers Republican Headquarters Office in Laurel Terrace. For Jackson County GOP information call Ralph Slaughter, Jackson County GOP Chair at 743.6491, email jacksonctygop@yahoo.com or visit the website www.jacksoncountygop.com.

• The North Jackson County GOP monthly meetings are held at 6:30 p.m., the fourth Monday of each month, at the Sylva headquarters, 58 D Sunrise Park, a retail complex located opposite the intersection of Highway 107 and the Asheville Highway behind Rite-Aid Drugstore. Ralph Slaughter, Jackson County GOP Chair at 743.6491 or www.jacksoncountygop.com.

• The South Jackson County GOP monthly meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. the fourth Tuesday of each month at the GOP headquarters office at Laurel Terrace on N.C. 64 east in Cashiers. Ralph Slaughter, Jackson County GOP Chair at 743.6491 or www.jacksoncountygop.com.

• Sen. Jim Davis will meet with constituents at 6 p.m. before the regular monthly GOP meeting at the Haywood County headquarters, 303 N. Haywood St., Waynesville. The Haywood Republicans meet at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the GOP headquarters. 246.7921. www.haywoodncgop.org.

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• Hayden Rogers and Mark Meadows, candidates for U.S. House of Representatives for North Carolina’s District 11, will participate in a forum at noon Thursday, Sept. 13, at Tartan Hall in Franklin. The forum is hosted by the Macon County League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

• Jackson County Democratic Party executive committee members meet at 6:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at Democratic Headquarters, 500 Mill St., Sylva. 631.1475 or jacksondems.com.

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• Story time (great outdoors theme) will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• The Jackson County Democratic Party meets the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Democratic Headquarters, 500 Mill St., Sylva. Brian McMahan, 508.1466.

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KIDS & FAMILIES • Haywood Waterways Association will conduct its annual Kids in the Creek program for Haywood County eighth grade public school students from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17 through Wednesday, Sept.

19, 2012, at the Canton Recreation Park. 452.7713 or email Jane Falkenstein at jfalken@earthlink.net.

each month at Democratic Headquarters, 286 Haywood Square, Waynesville. 452.9607 or www.haywooddemocrats.org

• Republican NC House candidate Mike Clampitt will host Mornings with Mike from 7 to 8 a.m. every Tuesday morning at the NC Victory Office, 58 D Sunrise Park Road, Sylva, for round table conversations with area business owners and managers regarding business concerns in Jackson County. Business owners and managers invited. Coffee and donuts provided. Clampitt can also be heard on 540 AM WRGC Tuesdays at 7 a.m. for his Mornings with Mike program. 421.4945 or email morningswithmike@yahoo.com.

• The Haywood Republicans meet at 6:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at GOP headquarters, 303 N. Haywood St., Waynesville. 246.7921. www.haywoodncgop.org.

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Others • The Mountain Patriots Tea Party will hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Blueridge Roadhouse Grill. Guest Speaker will be Paul Higdon, candidate for Macon County Commissioner.

524.6964.

• The Jackson County Patriots will host a Patriots and Popcorn gathering at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, at the Albert Carlton Library in Cashiers. The movie, A More Perfect Union, honoring the signing of the American Constitution, will be shown. The Patriots will not have their monthly business meeting in September. The Jackson County Patriots is a non-affiliated grassroots organization dedicated to fostering fiscal accountability and Constitution-based government. Normal meeting date is 6 p.m., third Thursday of each month at Ryan¹s Steakhouse in Sylva. Ginny Jahrmarkt, Box547@aol.com.

• Occupy/WNC General Assembly meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday in Room 220 of the Jackson County Administration and Justice Center in Sylva. 538.1644.

• The Jackson County Patriots meet at 6 p.m. every third Thursday at Ryan’s Steak House in Sylva.

371.0055.

• A TEA Party group meets at 2 p.m. the third Saturday of each month at the 441 Diner in Otto.

Mountainpatriotsteaparty.info.

• The League of Women Voters meets at noon the second Thursday of each month at Tartan Hall in Franklin.

Lunch available by reservation. Open to all. $6 for food.

524.5192.

SUPPORT GROUPS Haywood

September 12-18, 2012

• The Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library, 249 Frank Allen Road, Cashiers, will host its monthly Caregiver Education series talk from 10 a.m. to noon Wed. Sept. 12, in the library’s meeting room. 631.8039 or 586.5501 ext. 1245.

Macon • The Macon County Cancer Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, in the cafeteria of Angel Medical Center. Denise Allen with The Pink Ribbon and Command Mobility of Franklin will be the guest speaker. Light refreshments will be served. A $50 gift certificate will be given away. 369.9221.

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A&E FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS • The annual Thunder in the Smokies Fall Rally will be held from Friday, Sept. 14 through Sunday, Sept. 16, in Maggie Valley. For details visit www.thunderinthesmokies.com. For a copy of the ride guide map, call 800.334.9036, or visit www.visitncsmokies.com.

• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian celebrates its seventh annual Southeast Tribes Festival, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 14-15, at the Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds in Cherokee. Event includes traditional dancing, storytelling, arts demonstrations, ancient sports and living history of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole peoples. Special guests include War Chief Ostenaco and Lt. Henry Timberlake and the celebrated Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums. Adults admission $7 for the day; children $3 for ages 6-13; ages 5 and under free. Special rates for school groups. www.cherokeemuseum.org or 44 call 497.3481.

• The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad’s RailFest will be held Saturday, Sept. 15, and Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Bryson City Depot. For details and a complete schedule, call 488.7024 or visit www.gsmr.com.

• The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Franklin, is sponsoring a Drumming Circle at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept.

14, at 89 Sierra Drive, Franklin. No experience required; bring drums if you have some. 524.6777 or 369.8658.

• Alan’s Golden Oldies Sock Hop Extravaganza will be held Tuesday, Sept. 18, at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, featuring DJ Alan Price. For a complete schedule, visit www.lakejunaluska.com or call 800.222.4930. Special packages included.

• A Dada Festival will be held Sept. 18-20 at Western Carolina University, featuring music, dance, the visual arts and lectures on topics literary, artistic and filmrelated in the spirit of the early 20th-century art movement known as Dadaism. All festival events are free. bfrazier@wcu.edu or 227.2400.

• The final round of Haywood’s Got Talent will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. Tickets $12 for adults and $8 for students and are available on line at www.harttheater.com.

• The Pisgah Inn Craft Show will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, and Sunday, Sept. 23, at the Pisgah Inn, milepost 408 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Free admission.

LITERARY • Johnnie Sue Meyers, author of The Gathering Place: Traditional Cherokee Dishes and Southern Appalachian Cooking, will talk about her specialties at 3 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 15, at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Her specialties are the preparation of wild game meats and the gathering and preparing of wild vegetables. 456.6000 or www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Johnnie Sue Myers, author of The Gathering Place: Traditional Cherokee Dishes and Southern Appalachian Cooking, will visit City Lights Bookstore in Sylva at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16. 586.9499.

• Jim Staggers will sign copies of his new book, Messages To My Descendents — Please Fix Our Government, at 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

18, at the Macon County Public Library, 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin. 524.3600.

• The Jackson County Public Library in downtown Sylva will host a program devoted to the history of Transylvania County at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, featuring Jan Plemmons, author of several books about the county, and two members of the Transylvania Heritage Museum in Brevard. 586.2016.

• Women Learn will be hosting Mary J. Messer, author of the regional best-selling Appalachian memoir Moonshiner’s Daughter, for a reading and book signing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the meeting room at French Fryz Restaurant, 2109 Hendersonville Road, Arden. 242.5354 or www.moonshinersdaughter.com.

• Bob Plott will talk about his family’s legacy at 2 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Bethea Welcome Center at Lake Junaluska. Plott’s book, The Story of the Plott Hound: Strike & Stay, was published in 2007 and awarded the 2008 Willie Parker Peace N.C. Historical Literary Award. 222.4930 Opt. 2.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • The Essence Lounge at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino and Hotel is hosting the following events: karaoke, 8 p.m. to midnight, Sept. 13; My Highway, 7 to 10 p.m., DJ Moto, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., Sept. 14; NIghtcrawlers, 7 to 10 p.m., DJ Dizzy, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., Sept. 15; karaoke, 8 p.m. to midnight, Sept. 20; Dierks Bently, 8 p.m., Hoss Howard Band, 7 to 10 p.m., DJ D, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., Sept. 21; Leigh Glass, 7 to 10 p.m., DJ Moto 10

p.m. to 2 a.m., Sept. 22.

• Go, Granny, Go, will be performed at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University. A reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. The performance features Barbara Bates Smith and her musical accompanist Jeff Sebens. Tickets are $15. www.barbarabatessmith.com.

• Legendary country music singer and songwriter Don Williams will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets start at $29. Tickets may be purchased at GreatMountainMusic.com, or at the theatre’s box office, 1028 Georgia Road, Franklin. 866.273.4615.

• PLAYFEST, eight fully staged readings of some of the best short plays from around the country, will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Albert Carlton Cashiers Community Library.

• The Jackson County Arts Council will present Gary Carden’s one-woman play, Mother Jones at 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 15, in the Community Room at the Jackson County Library Complex. Mother Jones is portrayed by Laura Chew, a storyteller, actress, writer and naturalist who resides in Macon County. Tickets available one hour before show time. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and children. 507.9820 or 507.9531.

p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Tickets are $15 each. www.GreatMountainMusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

• Tickets on sale for the Dierks Bentley show set for 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, 777 Casino Drive, Cherokee. Must be 21 years of age or older to attend. www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000.

• Music at the Mill, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept.

22, at Francis Mill, 2.4 miles from Main Street on U.S. 276 south. Barabecue by Jeff McLeod. Bluegrass, musicians, crafts and more. $7 all day. Mill tours. Bring a chair. 456.6307.

• Season subscriptions and individual tickets are on sale for the 2012-13 Mainstage season at Western Carolina University’s School of Stage and Screen. The first performance is Pump Boys and Dinettes, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 26, through Saturday, Sept. 29, plus a 3 p.m. matinee on Sept. 29, at Hoey Auditorium. For ticket information and a complete schedule, call 227.7491, 227.2479 or visit FAPAC.wcu.edu.

• Tickets are on sale for pianist Bruce Hornsby, who will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, 777 Casino Drive Cherokee. www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000. Must be 21 years of age or older to attend. www.brucehornsby.com

• The Bluegrass Duel featuring Nitrograss and Athen’s Packway Handle will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

15, at the Highlands Performing Arts Center, 507 Chestnut Street, Highlands. Tickets, $25, are available online at www.highlandspac.org or by calling 526.9047.

• Tickets are now on sale for Cherokee After Dark, Saturday, Oct. 27, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, Cherokee, featuring celebrity DJs, Go-Go dancers and multiple bars. Headlining the event is Hip Hop superstar and producer Lil Jon. For a complete schedule, visit http://www.liljononline.com.

• The second annual Smoky Mountain Accordion Fest will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Maggie Valley Club. The fest will showcase local accordionists from Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Tickets are $20. 734.2975 or email accordionmusic@bellsouth.net

• Tickets are now on sale for the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker set for 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.

• Kirsten Thien and Galia Arad of New York City will perform from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Fines Creek Community Center. A $5 donation is suggested.

Both women are winners of the Abe Olman Scholarships for excellence in songwriting. 246.2022, www.kirstenthien.com or www.galiaarad.com.

• The Haywood Community Band will present a free concert at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Maggie Valley Town Hall Pavilion. The band will play songs from Mission Impossible, Schindlers List, A Tribute to Mancini, and other themes from popular movies of the past. Bring a picnic dinner. Benches, tables and chairs available. Soft drinks and snacks are available for a nominal charge. 456.4880, or visit www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

• Entertainer Steve Lippia will perform Sinatra classics during Simply Sinatra at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University. Accompanying Lippia will be the 10-piece Big Band Orchestra. Simply Sinatra is the first installment of the 2012-13 Galaxy of Stars Series. $20 for adults; $15 for groups and WCU faculty and staff; and $5 for children and students. 227.2479 or visit bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• Haywood County Arts Council presents flutist Kate Steinbeck and guitarist Amy Brucksch at 3 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Haywood County Public Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave, Canton. www.haywoodarts.org.

• The Macon County Arts Council presents a double-bill concert featuring guitar duo Jazz Mountain and Men Macon Music at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Franklin Town Square, at the corner of Main and IotIa streets, across from the Macon County Courthouse.

Bring a lawn chair. The gazebo is on the corner of Main and Iotla Streets, across from the Macon County Courthouse in downtown Franklin. In case of rain, the program will be rescheduled later in the fall. www.artscouncilofmacon.org or 524.7683.

• Phillips, Craig, and Dean, an award-winning contemporary Christian music trio, will be in concert at 7:30

• 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 • Sylva Art Stroll will be held at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, in historic downtown Sylva. Sylva Art Strolls continue through December on the second Fridays of each month.

• Haywood County Arts Council presents“Piercing the Mundane: The Women of NoHa,” through Saturday, Sept. 22. Piercing the Mundane attempts to bring to light that which is often overlooked. Featuring six women artists. www.haywoodarts.org.

• An exhibition at Western Carolina University’s Fine Arts Museum will be available through Oct. 5. The exhibition features work of WCU faculty members, all teaching artists who in in a range of media, and is part of the School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial.

Museum hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. Closed weekends and university holidays. museum@wcu.edu, 828.227.3591.

• Stitches in Time: Historic Quilts of Western North Carolina,” an exhibit showcasing the quilts that have been donated to Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center by families from across the region, will be on display at the museum through Friday, Sept. 14. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and until 7 p.m. Thursdays. 227.7129 or www.wcu.edu/mhc.

CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS • Craft demonstrations at Dogwood Crafters in

Dillsboro include beader Nan Smith, 2 to 5 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 13 and needlework specialist Jeri Buek, 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18. 586.2248.

• The Western North Carolina Woodturners Club meets every second Thursday at 6 p.m., March through November. Drive to the back of the school to the woodworking shop. Visitors welcomed. 526.2616 • Experimental Art Workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, at Leapin’ Frog Gallery, 58 Commerce St., Waynesville. $25. 456.8441.

• Textile historian Suzanne Hill McDowell will speak at a luncheon from noon to 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept.15, at the historic Shelton House, 49 Shelton St., Waynesville, about a selection of quilts from the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts in the Shelton House. Event tickets are $20 each and should be purchased by Sept. 8.

Tickets available at Olde Brick House, 452.4880, and Blue Ridge Books, 456.6000, both in Waynesville.

• Artist Sandra Brugh Moore will demonstrate watercolor techniques in a mountain landscape for Art League of the Smokies at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, at Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City.

488.7843. www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta • Penland School of Crafts has open spaces in several eight-week classes in its fall session available at half tuition to residents of local counties. Regular room and board charges apply, but students are not required to stay on campus. The session runs from Sept. 23 through Nov. 16. Complete information is available at www.penland.org or call 765.2359, ext 15.

• The Cherokee County Arts Council and the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center are offering classes made possible with grants through Handmade In America and the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. For details:

• Southwestern Community College will offer three new Clay Classes beginning in September. For details or to register: SCC Swain Center, 60 Almond School Road, Bryson City, 366.2000 or www.southwesterncc.edu/finearts. Space limited.

FILM & SCREEN • Western Carolina University will offer a series of films on topics from local food to the life of a forgotten civil rights activist as it again hosts the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers for the 2012-13 academic year. 227.3622 or email ledavis.wcu.edu.

Also, visit ace.wcu.edu.

• A new movie starring Jennifer Lawrence will be shown at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, Macon County Public Library, Franklin. Based Suzanne Collins’ book, the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the 12 districts to fight to the death on live television.

PG-13, intense violent thematic material and disturbing images involving teens. 524.3600, fontanalib.org.

• A classic movie starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron will be shown at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Millionaire Jervis Pendelton sees an 18 year-old girl in an orphanage, becomes enchanted and decides to sponsor her to college in New England. 524.3600, fontanalib.org.

• A family movie will be shown at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Popcorn, provided by the Friends of the Marianna Black Library, will be served in the library auditorium starting at 3:20 p.m. Due to production studio guidelines, the library may not include movie titles in its print advertising. 488.3030.

• A new movie starring Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor

and Kristin Scott Thomas will be shown at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the Macon County Public Library, Franklin. PG-13 for some violence and sexual content. Based on book by Paul Torday.

524.3600.

• A classic movie starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren will be shown at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the Macon County Public Library, Franklin. 524.3600 • The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will hold auditions for the Pulitzer Prize winning drama August Osage County at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, and Monday, Sept. 24, at the Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St. in Waynesville. www.harttheatre.com.

Outdoors OUTINGS & FIELDTRIPS • What if a street ran through the middle of your home? Join Parkway Rangers at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

13 for an easy 1.2 mile hike around the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center loop trail and find out how you can help ease the strain that habitat fragmentation places on wildlife and plant life. Meet at milepost 384.2. Registration required. 298.5330, ext. 304.

• Join Parkway rangers at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept.14, for a moderate 3.5-mile hike on the Graveyard Fields Loop Trail to the Upper Falls. Meet at milepost 418.8.

298.5330, ext. 304.

• Enjoy Afternoon Tea with Llamas at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Cradle of Forestry off highway 276 in the Pisgah National Forest. Llamas will carry your lunches or snacks on a walk along the paved Forest Discovery Trail. Iced tea and cups provided. This

easy-paced walk through scenic woods is about two miles roundtrip. Admission to the Cradle of Forestry is $5 for adults. Youth 15 and younger are admitted free.

Golden Age passports and America the Beautiful passes are honored. 877.3130 or go to www.cradleofforestry.org.

• The Highlands Plateau Audubon Society has two final Saturday walks scheduled. They are: Saturday, Sept.

15: annual autumn Blue Ridge Parkway trip, 7 a.m.

Highlands Town Hall to carpool, 526.1939; Saturday, Sept. 22: rain date for Sept. 15 walk or walk along Flat Mountain Road area, 7:30 a.m. Highlands Town Hall, 787.1387.

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• The Western North Carolina Woodturners Club will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Blue Ridge School, in Glenville. Drive to the back of the school to the woodworking shop. Visitors welcome.

479.3364, kathleen@cherokeeartscouncil.org, or www.cherokeeartscouncil.org/craft-labs-for-artists/

• The Watershed Association of the Tuckasegee River will host the Tuckasegee River Festival from 2-6 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 16, behind the Dillsboro Inn, 146 N. River Road, Dillsboro. Fiddler on the River theme will feature The New Broad River Band from Asheville. Menu includes hot dogs and bake-sale desserts. Bring salad or side to share, and a blanket to sit on. 488.8418.

• John Warren and the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust will lead an eco tour to Timber Ridge, part of the Warren estate conservation easement, at 10 a.m.

Thursday, Sept. 20. $35 for new friends; includes a guided tour, lunch and a HCLT membership. www.hicashlt.org, 526.1111 or email julie.hitrust@earthlink.net.

• Friends of the Smokies is hosting a classic hike of the Smokies Thursday, Sept. 20 along Big Creek. Meet at 8:30 in Asheville or 9 a.m. in Waynesville. Hikers may wade or swim in Midnight Hole and admire Mouse Creek Falls. Hiking enthusiast and author Danny Bernstein (“Hiking North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains”) will lead this 10-mile hike. The hike is easy to moderate in difficulty and has a total elevation gain of 1,100 ft. A donation of $35 to go to the Friends’ Smokies Trails Forever program is requested, and includes a complimentary membership to Friends of the Smokies. Current Friends of the Smokies members hike

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To register call 452.0720 or email hollyd@friendsofthesmokies.org.

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• The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee will host a bird walk with Jeremy Hyman on Wednesday, Sept. 26 in Jackson County. www.ltlt.org or 524.2711.

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• A Chi Running Presentation will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at REI Asheville. Registration required at http://www.rei.com/event/43918/session/56570.

• A Fall Hikes on the Blue Ridge Parkway Presentation will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at REI Asheville. Registration required at www.rei.com/event/44204/session/56992.

• The Southwestern Commission will host a two-hour public workshop at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Jackson County Library, as part of a Regional Trails Plan underway for seven counties in Western North Carolina. The workshop will focus on generating ideas for future trails in Swain and Jackson Counties, including a possible Mountains-toSea Trail connection between Bryson City and Sylva. 586.1962 x212. www.regiona.org.

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• The Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust will present Hummingbirds: Delicate Gems or Kings of the Sky? with Romney Bathurst, 7 p.m. Sept. 25, Village Green in Cashiers. 526.1111 or julie.hitrust@earthlink.net.

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• Thursdays at the Library presents a program on Living around Bears at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Meeting Room of the Macon County Library, Franklin. 524.3600, fontanalib.org.

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• The Franklin Bird Club will meet at 7 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 17, at the Macon County Public Library. John Sill will speak on Little-Known and Seldom-Seen Birds. Everyone is welcome.

• A boating safety course will be held from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20 through Friday, Sept. 21, in rooms 309/310 on the Haywood Community College campus. Offered by Haywood Community College’s Natural Resources Division and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Must attend two consecutive evenings to receive certification. Free; no age limits. Pre-registration required. Register online at www.ncwildlife.org.

• The Carolina Mountain Woodturners and the Southern Highlands Craft Guild will sponsor a

• The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will celebrate National Hunting and Fishing Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 24-26, at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, in the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard. The event features hands-on activities, interactive exhibits, and demonstrations including archery, outdoor cooking and more. 877.4423 or www.ncwildlife.org/nhfd.aspx.

• Free Hunter Safety courses will be offered from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Sept. 24-26 in rooms 309/310 on the Haywood Community College campus. No age limits. Must attend three consecutive evenings to receive certification.

Offered by HCC’s Natural Resources Division and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Pre-registration online is required. www.ncwildlife.org.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Murphy Medical Center’s Two Hours from Anywhere 5-K challenge will be held Saturday, Sept. 15. The fundraiser also includes a twomile heart walk and kids’ fun run. Proceeds will benefit Murphy Medical Center’s new Wound Care and Hyperbaric Therapy service.

Registration forms available at murphymedical.org under ‘news’ section. 835.7506.

• The Third annual Bogey Fore the Volunteer Center Golf Tournament will tee off at 1 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 21, with lunch at the Maggie Valley Club, to benefit the Haywood Jackson Volunteer Center. $160 for a two-man team with captain’s choice. Sheppard Insurance Group is sponsoring $10,000 for a hole in one-on-one par 3 and we’ll have door prizes as well as lunch.

356.2833.

• The second annual Mountain Tennis Doubles Tournament will be held from Friday, Sept. 21 to Sunday, Sept. 23 at the Macon County Recreation Park. Categories are men, women and mixed doubles. Deadline is Sept. 15; fee is $25 per player for first event, $15 for second.

Under 18 years of age, fee is $15 for first event, $10 for second. Players limited to two events.

Applications available at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce and at the Macon County Community Building or mail to 1281 Georgia Road, Suite 431, Franklin. 371.3280 or 349.0349.

• A 5-kilometer foot race will be held at 8 a.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29, at Western Carolina University as part of WCU’s 38th annual Mountain Heritage Day festival. The race will begin from McKee Building. Race-day registration and registered runner check-in will be held from 7 to 7:45 a.m. Entry fees $15 for runners who register by noon Friday, Sept. 28; $25 race

day; $10 for students. (WCU students must have valid ID.) Race T-shirts to first 250 registrants. Proceeds to Sport Management Association Scholarship fund to help students attend conferences and events. http://claws.wcu.edu/sma/5K/. 283.0203 or dtyler@wcu.edu.

FARM & GARDEN • The Waynesville Council of Garden Clubs annual Dahlia Exhibit will be held Sept. 13 and 14 at the Waynesville branch of the Haywood County Library. The exhibit is free; attendees can vote for their favorite single stem or arrangement. To exhibit dahlias, take them to the library between 9 and 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 13. 275.0105.

• The Highlands Biological Foundation will present its Native Plant Symposium Friday, Sept. 14, and Saturday, Sept. 15. The Symposium will feature garden tours, lectures, fieldtrips and workshops, a plant auction, dinner and wine. Proceeds go to the Highlands Botanical Garden. $75 for members, $125 for non-members. 526.2221 or visit www.highlandsbiological.org/events/.

• Cooperative Extension agent Christy Bredenkamp will conduct a free seminar on ginseng production for homeowners who want to grow “sang,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the Jackson County Public Library in downtown Sylva. 586.2016.

• North Carolina State University is hosting a free workshop on organic broccoli production from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the Mountain Research Station, 265 Test Farm Road, Waynesville. RSVP for a guaranteed lunch. 684.3562 or Emily_Bernstein@ncsu.edu.

• The Town of Waynesville will hold its compost and mulch sale from 8 a.m. to noon Sept. 20-22 and Sept. 27-29 at the town yard waste landfill, off Bible Baptist Drive, from Russ Ave., near the bypass. Payment must be made by cash or check. Town personnel will be available with a wheel loader to load your pickup or trailer. The sale will be canceled in the event of wet weather. 456.3706.

• The ASAP Farm Tour is set for Sept. 22-23 and Sunburst Trout Farm in Waynesville is the only Haywood County farm to be included in the 35farm tour. The tour runs from 1 to 6 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 22-23. Passes are $25 in advance. www.asapconnections.org.

ONGOING CLUBS • The Haywood County Historical and Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 25, in the Faith Classroom of the First Methodist Church on Haywood St. in Waynesville. Program presented by Roland Osborne on The Significance of Large Format Cameras. Joan Routh, 627.0385 or Mary Harrah, 627.9828.

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• Family Hiking Day will be held at 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Standing Indian Campground Family Pavilion, just west of Franklin. Enjoy a hiking lecture, organized hikes and a cookout lunch for hikers. Bring proper hiking shoes and, including rain gear. All ages are welcome and are encouraged to attend. www.nantahalahikingclub.org.

woodturning demonstration by John Jordan from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville. Jordan, from Antioch, Tenn, has been turning for over 25 years. 645.6633 or visit www.carolinamountainwoodturners.org

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HOMES FOR RENT UNFURNISHED 3/BR 1/BA HOUSE FOR RENT Newly Remodeled! Set beautifully on mountain top in the Jonathan Creek area between Maggie Valley & Waynesville near Catoloochee Ski Resort. 4,500 foot magnificent views, fireplace, new well, gas heat. REDUCED TO $575/mo. Will also Sell, with some financing available! Call 828.287.8668 after 10:30am, or 828.980.1391 ask for Jim.

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Kudzu’s unstoppable march across the South

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George Ellison

BACK THEN the South.

Eradicating the plant is a major undertaking that normally ends in failure.

Southern poet James Dickey wrote a highly imaginative poem titled “Kudzu” in which telephone poles, snakes, and cows disappear in the stuff. To eliminate the snakes the farmers herd their hogs into the vines, where an epic battle takes place:

“The sound is intense …

Nearly human with purposive rage.

No one can see the desperate, futile Striking under the leaf heads.

Now and then, the flash of a long Living vine, a cold belly, Leaps up, torn apart, then falls Under the tussling surface.

You have won, and wait for frost, When, at the merest touch Of cold, the kudzu turns Black, withers inward and dies, Leaving a mass of brown strings …”

But, alas, you haven’t won. Come spring the deciduous vines will leaf out again and keep right on climbing and spreading … covering everything in sight … and there’s not much anyone can do about it.

George Ellison wrote the biographical introductions for the reissues of two Appalachian classics: Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders and James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees.

In June 2005, a selection of his Back Then columns was published by The History Press in

Charleston as Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains. Readers can contact him at P.O. Box 1262, Bryson City, N.C., 28713, or at info@georgeellison.com.

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“I had no idea the severity of the problem, and they figured it out immediately, I had been miserable for two to three weeks leading up to this, and somebody finally acknowledged that this wasn’t just a typical pregnancy. Everyone at MedWest-Harris very calming,” Smoot said. “They were really on top of it. At the time, it was all a whirlwind to me. I just remember it was such a good experience at MedWest in terms of how I was treated.” s Rebecca Smoot

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ew people want to get close enough to observe the attractive flowers that kudzu produces. The plant probably won’t actually reach out and grab you — but then again, it might.

One of the many kudzu jokes that has emerged in the southeastern United States since its introduction goes, “If you’re going to plant kudzu, drop it and run.” There’s a certain logic in this piece of advice since the “mile-a-minute vine” grows as much as 12 inches in 24 hours and up to 50 feet in a single season.

Kudzu has become so much identified with the South that a full twocolumn entry is Columnist devoted to the plant in the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (UNC Press, 1989).

Long used as a medicinal plant in Asia, it was introduced into this country at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, and then became known in the South through the Japanese pavilion at the New Orleans Exposition (1884-86).

First used as a shade plant on porches and arbors, it was subsequently utilized as livestock fodder and to help control erosion on bare banks or along railway right of ways.

Today it has become a danger to timberland as it envelops trees and eventually chokes them to death. Kudzu now covers more than two million acres of forestland in

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Smoky Mountain News September 12-18, 2012