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Tryon Daily Bulletin

The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper

Vol. 84 / No. 96

Tryon, N.C. 28782

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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Wicked Que BBQ champs Bos Vining called to tell us about her sighting of a black bear in her backyard in Tryon. She said the bear broke a bird feeder and tore the screening on her back porch in order to get to bags of bird feed. Bos said she has lived in the home since 1968 and has never seen a bear there before.

Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:

Today

Jeff Campbell with Wicked Que displays his award for winning the grand championship at the Blue Ridge BBQ Festival. The team also took home $2,500. This was the first time Wicked Que competed in Tr yon’s festival. Earlier this year, the team, from Watkinsville, Ga.,

scored a perfect 180 in brisket at Kings Mountain, N.C. They won two grand championships in Georgia last year, one at Winder and the other at Young Harris, where they had a perfect 180 in chicken. Their team slogan is “Live fast, smoke slow!” (photo by Leah Justice)

Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Thursdays, 7 a.m. - noon, old Searcy Mill parking lot, Hwy. 108, Columbus. Saluda Center, Thursday activities: knitting group, 9:30 a.m.; gentle Yin Yoga, 5:30 p.m.; Saluda Center. 828749-9245. The Meeting Place Senior Center, Thursday activities include ceramics, 9:30 a.m.;

Asheville man faces life sentence on drug charges in sheriff’s Operation Pill Sweep

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Other arrests made in Pill Sweep by Leah Justice

An Asheville man is facing a life sentence for selling illegal drugs in Polk County. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested Tommy Lee

Johnson, of 63 Bingham Rd.,

Lot 45, Asheville, N.C., and charged him with five counts of trafficking opium or heroin, trafficking cocaine, selling and delivering cocaine and six counts of maintaining a vehicle to distribute narcotics, according to police reports.

Serving Polk County and Upper Spartanburg and Greenville Counties

Polk County Sheriff Donald Hill said Johnson is a habitual felon and was bringing large amounts of narcotics to Polk County to sell. Johnson was arrested in conjunction with a nine-


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