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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 84 / No. 185
The Polk County High School PC Players will present Robert Harling’s play, “Steel Magnolias,” Friday, Oct. 21 and Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the school’s auditorium. Tickets may be ordered by phone (828-894-2525 ext. 261) or will be available at the door the nights of the show.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Tryon Water Department, will replace a hydrant and repair valves/pipes Friday, Oct. 21.Customers from Harmon Field Rd. to the Lynn Post Office will be without water from approximately 8 a.m. to noon. Weather permitting. Saluda Center, Friday events: chair exercise, 9:30 a.m.; Trash Train, 10 a.m. The Meeting Place Senior Center Friday activities include movie matinee at 10 a.m. and bingo at 12:30 p.m. (Continued on page 2)
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Friday, October 21, 2011
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School of fish Sunny View Elementary students reach to touch a horseshoe crab during a recent trip to the Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg, Tenn. (photo submitted by Julie Wilson)
Sunny View Elem. uses PCCF grant to visit aquarium by Leah Justice
Sunny View Elementary students recently took a field trip like no other that introduced a world unknown to many of them. Students spent the first six weeks of school learning about sea life to prepare for a trip to Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg, Tenn.. The entire school, grades kindergarten through fifth grade, all 171 of them eligible, chartered buses funded by a $6,600 grant from the Polk County Commu-
nity Foundation’s Unrestricted Fund. “My absolute favorite part of the trip “My absolute fa- was a tunnel called Shark Lagoon. vorite part of the trip was a tunnel called When I got inside there was a Shark Lagoon,” said sidewalk that moved and I felt like I fifth grader Cooper Massengill in a let- was at the bottom of the ocean.” -- Cooper Massengill ter to the editor (see page 6) “When I got inside there was a sidewalk that a sawfish against the glass on moved and I felt like I was at the its belly that looked like he was bottom of the ocean. My group smiling at me.” and I went through it a couple of (Continued on page 3) times and every time there was
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