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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 84 / No. 160
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
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Ag center’s Farm to Fork Supper sold out by Samantha Hurst
The last of the 250 available tickets for the Mill Spring Agriculture Center’s Farm to Fork Supper have been sold, meaning every mix-and-match place
setting will be filled with fresh foods from a variety of donors Saturday, Sept. 17. The ag center’s Lynn Sprague and Carol Lynn Jackson put their heads together more than a year
ago to create this community harvest event. “Some people can give cash, some people can give 10 chick(Continued on page 3)
The annual meeting of the Polk 4-H & Youth Foundation will be held at the 4-H Center on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 9 a.m. The Polk 4-H Center is located at the end of Locust Street in Columbus. This meeting is open to the public.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
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.; 828-749-9245. The Meeting Place Senior Center Thursday activities include ceramics, 9:30 a.m.; art class, 10 a.m.; bingo or movie, 12:30 p.m. 828-894-0001. Landrum Library, Lap Babies, 10 a.m., 20- 25 minute session for young children and (Continued on page 2)
Almost 200 people showed up at the gates of last year’s Farm to Fork Supper at the Mill Spring Agricultural Center. This year the center sold out the dinner, with 250 people expected to show up. (photo submitted)
St. Luke’s gets green light for expansion Groundbreaking expected early 2012 by Samantha Hurst
The N.C. Department of Health Service Regulation approved a certificate of need (CON) Friday, Sept. 9 for a proposed six-bed replacement facility on the St. Luke’s Hospital
campus in Columbus. Hospital officials originally expected the approval to come sometime before Nov. 29, with plans to have designs finalized by then. Dr. Brian Rosenberg of Rosenberg Bone and Joint said hospital board of trustee members were thrilled to get good news about
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the CON approval last week. “St. Luke’s Hospital’s entire orthopedic team is very excited about the building plans our board has worked hard to implement. We were notified it would be late November before we had an answer, so it’s terrific that (Continued on page 4)