Nature plus art: Landscape architectc Mark Byington, ‘Market Place,’ page 10
Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 85 / No. 10
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Monday, February 13, 2012
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Sweet Grass Farm in Columbus receives $6,000 WNC AgOptions grant Tryon artist Joanne Opel was chosen to create the painting featured at the 2011 Annual National Specialty of the American Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club held in San Jose, Calif. The painting was used on the cover of The Royal Dispatch, the club’s magazine, in its specialty issue, and was the feature item at the annual banquet’s auction, with proceeds to the Health Research and Rescue Trusts.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Mondays, Harmon Field/Tryon, 7 a.m. - noon. Saluda Center, Tuesdays, chair exercise, 9:30 a.m.; bridge, 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., with bridge discussion session at 12:45. 828-749-9245. For more activities, email salu(Continued on page 2)
Owners look to carry on farm’s family heritage by Samantha Hurst
Randy Smith clacks a white plastic bucket against the fencing in his back yard and calls for three calves standing on a distant hill. These three calves, about 8 months old, will soon join the more than 20 other cattle the Smiths have grazing in their pastures. Randy and Megan Smith, who run Sweet Grass Farm, were recently chosen as recipients of a $6,000 Western North Carolina AgOptions Grant for the second year in a row. “If it wasn’t for these grant (Continued on page 3)
Randy and Megan Smith with one of their grass-fed cattle. (photo by Samantha Hurst)
Polk moves forward with water system by Leah Justice
Although Polk County commissioners have been constructing water lines for several years based on need and opportunity, the actual work looks very similar to a plan projected years ago. Commissioners discussed the future of the county’s water
system at a meeting Feb. 6. They asked county engineer Dave Odom to provide the county with estimates of costs for additional work needed for the county water system. This work would include connecting Polk’s Green Creek system, which ends at the Peniel Road intersection of Hwy. 9,
to Polk Central School in Mill Spring; connecting Polk Central to the Mill Spring crossroad water line and constructing a storage tank. Odom said Polk County first began looking at a water system (Continued on page 7)
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