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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 85 / No. 42
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
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State funds Polk streambank restoration
Tryon resident Mary Meyers will visit New York during early April to be honored by the New York Metropolitan Opera for the 24 years she sang with the chorus. Since moving to Tryon several years ago, Meyers has become an active member of the local music scene. Most recently, she played Madame Armfeldt in Tryon Little Theater’s production of “A Little Night Music.”
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Walkers who enjoy wandering along the trails on the Adawehi Campus have noticed earthmoving activity along the creek. “Many people who normally travel Hwy. 108,” said Evangelena Barber, “are now driving along Fox Mountain Road to admire the beauty of the creek restoration.” The activity is due to a project that is designed to restore 3,000 linear feet of stream on a major tributary to White Oak Creek between properties owned by the Adawehi Healing Center and the Barber Farm, also known as Tribranch Farm. The major goal of this project is to help improve water quality and aquatic habitat in the Green River Watershed through: • Removing exotic, invasive plant species • Stabilizing failing streambanks (Continued on page 4)
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Thursdays, 7 a.m. - noon, old Searcy Mill parking lot, Hwy. 108, Columbus. Thursday Men’s Prayer Breakfast will meet March 29, 8 a.m. at TJ’s Cafe, 456 S. Trade Street, Tryon. All are welcome. Lanier Library book sale will be held Thursday, March (Continued on page 2)
The stream before (above) and during (below) the restoration work. (photo above by Anna Saylor; photo below by Joel Lenk)
Towns approve joint water agreement by Leah Justice
Water could soon flow to new customers along a shared Howard Gap Road water line, and the towns of Columbus and Tryon and City of Saluda will be able to share water sources. Columbus, Saluda and Tryon
councils held a joint meeting on Tuesday, March 27 and approved an interlocal agreement to operate the joint water line, as well as a pass-through agreement to compensate an entity in the middle of a water transfer. The meeting was brief, with
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no comments made. Each council approved the agreements unanimously. Under the agreement, all three towns share ownership of the new approximately 7-mile-long water (Continued on page 6)