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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 84 / No. 197
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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Fast Eddie’s Fine Swine qualifies for BBQ world championship in Memphis by Leah Justice
OTE Polling places for today include: Columbus Town Hall Harmon Field cabin Saluda Fire Dept. Landrum United Methodist Church
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit Tuesdays, Ozone Drive and Hwy. 176, Saluda. Polk County Transportation Authority makes a regular trip to Hendersonville on the first and third Tuesday of each month. 894-8203. Hospice of the Carolina Foothills “We Care” is a weekly informal social group open to women coping with (Continued on page 2)
Fast Eddie’s Fine Swine, a local competition cook team will compete in the 2012 World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Memphis, Tenn. Fast Eddie’s Fine Swine is led by pitmasters Justin Hembree, of Hendersonville, who is Tryon’s Town Manager, and Eddie Smith, who is the Deputy City Manager for Kannapolis. During the Milledgeville, Georgia’s Deep Roots festival held on Oct. 22, Fast Eddie’s Fine Swine were finalist in the pork shoulder category with a second and third finish overall. The wins secured the event’s “passdown” slot to represent the Deep Roots festival in Memphis next May. Memphis in May’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest will be held May 17-19, 2012 at Tom Lee Park in
Eddie Smith tends boston butts during the Blue Ridge Barbecue Festival this summer. (photo by Samantha Hurst)
Memphis, Tennessee. Hundreds of teams will compete for over $110,000 in prizes and supreme
bragging rights. The event is recognized as the world championship of competitive barbecue.
Polls open today in municipal elections by Leah Justice
There were 122 residents in Polk County who took advantage of one-stop voting for this year’s municipal election. Polls are open in the towns of Columbus and Tryon and cities of Saluda and Landrum today for the general election. Polk County polls are open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30
p.m., while polls in Landrum are open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. One-stop voting ended Saturday with Tryon seeing the highest number of voters. Tryon had 56 early voters, with Saluda seeing 48 and Columbus 18, according to the Polk County Board of Elections. South Carolina does not participate in one-stop voting.
Serving Polk County and Upper Spartanburg and Greenville Counties
Polling places today include Columbus Town Hall for Columbus residents, Harmon Field cabin for Tryon residents, Saluda Fire Department for Saluda residents and the Landrum United Methodist Church for Landrum residents. In Columbus, residents will select three candidates for town (Continued on page 3)