Volume 131, Number 42 Wednesday, May 27, 2015 www.thefranklinpress.com Franklin, North Carolina 28734 $1.00
Rants & Raves (Call 369-0568 after 5 p.m.)At Friday’s Peace
Officer’s Memorial Day observance, the top elect-ed law officer in North Carolina, Roy Cooper, was on stage. It would have been common courtesy to have allowed the state attorney general to say a few words of appreciation to all the law officers pres-
ent and to the families of those officers who have given their lives in the line of duty.
• • •Pay now or pay later?
Look at our roads and bridges.
• • •We have met the
enemy and he is us. Our
congress. • • •
Way to go FHS girls softball and soccer teams!
• • •Folks in Macon County:
Are you lifters or leaners? • • •
Cowee Heritage Center is the place to go for great
Macon County Manager Derek Roland unveiled his proposed county budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year on Thursday, recommending an increase in spending that won’t force taxes to increase.
Next year’s proposed budget is $46,646,357, which would be an increase of $852,223 over the previous year’s total of $45,794,124 if approved as-is. But the extra spending won’t hike up resi-dents’ taxes, Roland said.
“This budget is an increase over last year but it will not necessitate a tax increase above revenue neu-tral or any fund balance
expenditure in order to bal-ance,” Roland said. “All of the additions in this budget are funded by recurring rev-enues.”
Roland essentially had more money to allo-cate this year com-pared to last due to three key revenue sources. Ad valorem property tax col-lections increased by 1 percent, motor vehicle tax collec-tions increased by 7 percent and sales tax across the county has increased by approximately 10 percent.
“Even though the projec-tions for the year show that sales tax may finish up as
much as 7 percent by year’s end, I have only budgeted a 3 percent increase just to be on the safe side,” Roland said. “Right now there are uncertainties in the state leg-
islature regarding two sales tax redistribution bills that could change how sales tax is allocated to the counties and we need to be conservative in
case either of those passes.”The property value of the
county as a whole declined following the 2015 revalua-tion, from approximately $9.3 billion to $7.67 billion – a
decrease of 19.2 percent. The millage rate will increase from 0.0279 to 0.0349, or to 34.9 cents per $100 of value, in order to maintain a revenue
neutral budget. That means, for a property that was val-ued at $100,000 in 2007 and is still valued at $100,000 in 2015, the owner of that property will receive a $70
tax increase on their annual bill. Properties that lost more value than the county-wide average (approximately 14 percent) will see a tax bill decrease.
“We tasked Derek as a board
to come back to us with a revenue neutral budget and he has done that,” commis-sioner Kevin Corbin said. “I personally asked to see
some additional funds put in the school capital outlay budget and that also has been accomplished and I think this budget is fiscally sound.”
Roland noted that the Macon County Schools oper-ating budget will remain unchanged from 2014-15 at $7,338,000, but the capital outlay fund will increase from $200,000 to $300,000. The board also recently approved a QZAB loan in the amount of $2.98 mil-lion to fund improvements at Highlands School and Union Academy.
Proposed budget highlights for other departments
Right now there are uncertainties in the state legislature regarding two sales tax redistribution
bills that could change how sales tax is allocated to the counties and we need to be conservative in case either of those passes.
~ County Manager Derek Roland
Budget increase to lessen some burdens
Honoring those we lost Third-graders face new reading hurdles, causing concerns
See Budget on page 7A
See Reading on page 8A
Macon thanks, remembers veterans on Memorial DayVeterans gathered with the community on Monday, May 25, in honor of Memorial Day and the men and women who gave their lives in military service. Activities were held at Macon County Veterans Memorial Recreation Park, while people celebrated in their own way across the county over the long holiday weekend.
New state regulations may force Macon County Schools to do twice as much with the same amount of money to help some third-graders advance.
That warning, about the system’s summer reading camp, was delivered to school leaders by central office consultant Carol Arnold, who believes more kids than usual may need help over the break or risk not advancing. But the extra money might not be there to support the additional needs.
Last year was the first year third-graders across the state came under a new law, passed by the N.C. General Assembly in 2013. Called “Read to Achieve,” the law mandates that every third-grader must read at their grade level or be held back for another year. A battery of testing determines whether the stu-dent moves on to fourth grade.
If a student cannot read at a third-grade level or higher, he or she must attend a summer reading camp. If the student can read at grade level by the end of the camp, he or she can move on. If not, the student is retained or put into a split third/fourth-grade classroom.
The planning allotment given to Macon County Schools last year was $45,577, Arnold said. The camp had about 20 students and ran for four weeks, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. This year’s allot-ment is $46,179, though a new wrinkle has been added to the equation thanks to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI), Arnold said.
The test used last year to measure a student’s reading level was set at the third-grade level. This year’s level was initially increased to “5.1,” or “fifth-grade and first-month,” Arnold explained.
“That means this little youngster, that we’re asking to read at the third-grade level, they upped the score that if you don’t make a 5.1 … then you would have to come to summer camp,” Arnold said.
Many superintendents and educators across the state expressed outrage at the jump in the reading requirement, Arnold said.
“They said, ‘You know what? This is ridiculous. You’re ask-ing a third-grader to read at a fifth-grade level.’”
NCDPI revisited the reading test level requirement after the outcry, but only to 4.3, which still has many concerned.
“As you can still see, it’s a big jump,” Arnold said.Preliminary testing shows there are currently 95 students
who are not reaching the required reading level, meaning they would enter the summer reading program.
“We still have alternate assessments ... we’re working on this week, we have End of Grade (EOGs) tests to take and we also have a Read to Achieve test and a portfolio. I don’t know what the number will be when all testing is said and done, but right now we’re sitting at 95 children,” Arnold said.
That means more than three times the children could need summer reading camp with only an extra $1,000 to work with.
“My guesstimation is, if we can bring (it down) to 50, that will be a good workable number,” Arnold said.
School board members and central office staff were not pleased of the news that the bar had been set much higher in less than a year by the state.
The Appalachian Food Pantry School is now accept-ing applications for 2015.
AFPS, a pilot program supported by the Western North Carolina Food Policy Council, offers training ses-sions for food pantries and other emergency food pro-viders in the seven western counties of North Carolina, including Macon County.
AFPS provides a four-week training program in public relations and commu-nity development, financial planning and management, volunteer management and retention and pantry partner-ships and public health. The courses cover such topics as fundraising, grant writing and management, food safe-ty regulations, marketing and social media, strategic planning, volunteer recruit-ment and retention strate-gies.
The courses begin with a kickoff event for pantry staff, volunteers and board members called Engaging Leadership: Building Active and Committed Supporters. The event, to be held at 6 p.m. Friday, July 17, will feature a catered reception, live music and a panel of pantries whose boards of directors have demonstrated exceptional engagement and action.
Courses will take place July 21 and 28 and Aug. 4 and 11 from 5 to 8 p.m. The location for the class will be determined by proximity to participants after registra-tion. Instructors will share region-specific information and connect participants with additional resources, and peer-to-peer learning is a core element of each course.
Food pantries or emer-gency food providers inter-ested in increasing the knowledge of their pantry board members, managers, directors and volunteers
should attend. Registration for the full program is $45, which includes all course materials, dinner during each class and gift cards from area grocery stores to support pantry food pur-chases.
Participants also are eli-gible for mileage stipends and carpooling in area church vans. Each registra-tion covers the entire pantry,
and participants can send different members of staff, volunteers or board mem-bers to the trainings most relevant to their needs.
The program is co-spon-sored by MANNA Food Bank and the MountainWise Public Health Partnership, and is funded by the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.
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Socials
Troy Burt and Tracy Platt of Franklin announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their daughter, Brooklynn Monique Burt, to Dustin Lucas Pendergrass, son of Mike and Connie Pendergrass and Steve and Pam Ledford, all of Franklin. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Ronnie and Carol Holland of Franklin, Duke and Debbie Platt of Wauchula, Florida, and the late Gene Burt of Pensacola, Florida. The groom-elect is the grand-son of the late Wayne and Katherine Pendergrass, and the late Jewel and Louise Smith, all of Franklin. Dustin also is the step-grandson of the late Mack and Anita Bateman, and the late Vester and Donna Ledford, also of Franklin. Burt is employed as a firefighter for Cherokee Tribal Fire Department, and she serves as a lieutenant for Cowee Fire/Rescue. Pendergrass is employed as a paramedic for Macon County EMC and he serves as the chief of Cowee Fire/Rescue. The wedding is planned for Saturday, May 30, at 6 p.m. at Tessentee Farms. Invitations have been sent.
Burt, Pendergrass to wed
Dorothy Dodge will celebrate her 101st birthday with a family party. She moved to Franklin almost 50 years ago to own and operate the Quality Inn/Town motel with her husband, Kenneth, and brother-in-law, Keith, and his wife Nancy. She was born in Smoke Run, Pennsylvania, and lived in Union, New Jersey, before coming to Franklin. Her son David Dodge and his wife, Phyllis, live in Franklin, as does her daughter, Pat Gibbs, and husband, Harvey. She also has five grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. She currently resides at Macon Valley Nursing Home.
Dodge to celebrate 101st
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The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee recently received more than 2,700 board feet of lumber from Shaw Industries that will be used to help restore a historic farmstead on LTLT’s Tessentee Bottomland Preserve prop-erty in Otto.
The donation is the second in two years from Shaw. The first went to restore the deck-ing for a new front porch. This donation will be used to restore the battens on the farm house, which is more than 100 years old.
LTLT gets lumber supportLTLT volunteers John Gladden and Lewis Penland stand with LTLT Stewardship Coordinator Dennis Desmond next to the lumber donated by Shaw Industries.
It took a year’s worth of hard work, but the old Franklin Town Hall is now officially a production brewery.
Lazy Hiker Brewing opened its doors to the public last Wednesday and offered Franklin its first taste of local craft beer. As the doors swung open, owners Ken Murphy, Lenny Jordan and their group of investors beamed with pride.
“It’s a very exciting day for us and we
hope we have created a place that the town can be proud of,” Jordan said. “We want this to be a place where you can come with your friends and family and enjoy a good, quality beer.”
The location of Frank lin’s first brewery is ironic. The conference room where the town board of aldermen voted down alcohol by-the-glass sales seven times before relent-ing in 2006 and putting the issue up for a referendum vote is now a community event room where large parties can come and enjoy a pint of ale.
The brewery’s tap room currently fea-tures six varieties of beer, but can accommo-date up to 12 brews at a time. Head brewer Noah McIntee already has plans for the extra space in the keg cooler.
“We are going to add some season-al selections and some small batch beers throughout the year,” McIntee said. “Right now we have about 3,200 gallons of beer kegged and ready to drink. By the end of next week we should have about 2,200 more gallons ready to go.”
Lazy Hiker’s brew house can produce as much as 3,200 gallons of beer in a week at max capacity. The shiny new equipment took several months to acquire and sent McIntee across North America and Asia before he found all the components he needed.
Now that the beer is flowing in Franklin, the next challenge for Lazy Hiker Brewing will be to begin distribution on a regional level. The plan is to start with Western North Carolina and self distribute using a custom designed delivery van. Once the beer becomes popular, distribution could expand further across North Carolina and poten-tially into neighboring states.
“We want to begin (Thursday) with get-ting our beers out in Franklin at other establishments that serve craft beer and build from there,” Jordan said. “Once we
get that going we can look at Western North Carolina and then eventually hopefully into northern Georgia.”
Murphy and Jordan acquired the old town hall property after the town board of aldermen accepted their bid in April 2014. Lazy Hiker had to make $25,000 in renovations within a calendar year and must complete $185,000 worth of renovations within 18 months as part of the real estate agreement.
The business lease with the town begins in July and will cost the brewery $1,250 per month. That rate will double to $2,500 in July 2016. Lazy Hiker Brewing has the option to purchase the building at any time for $325,000.
“Twenty years ago I would have never thought that having a brewery in the old town hall would have been possible,” Franklin Mayor Bob Scott said. “I am excited to wel-come Lazy Hiker Brewing to Franklin.”
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Lazy Hiker Brewing opens doors to awaiting communityRyan Hanchett/Press photos
(Above) A before-and-after comparison of the old town hall-turned Lazy Hiker Brewing. The brewery opened last week.
Brewer Noah McIntee works behind the scenes after the opening.
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On Friday, May 15, at noon, the annual Memorial for Fallen Police Officers was held on the square in Franklin. A solemn occa-sion, with a history of being well planned and presented.
Attorney General Roy Cooper was in Franklin, and in attendance at the event. Organizers knew he would be there, and it was initially understood that he would make a few remarks.
For whatever reason, that never happened. Mr. Cooper was placed on the back row of dignitaries, and was not asked to speak at all.
How embarrassing. To sit the top law enforcement official in our state on the back row, and refuse to allow him to speak, at an event for fallen law enforcement officers, no less. It shows a lack of common courtesy, and evidences an extreme lack of protocol.
An innocent mistake, or a sign of the times? One wonders.
Joe CollinsFranklin
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Let AG Cooper speakLetter to the Editor
A thought occurred to me as I was traveling in and
around the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. The notion didn’t have to do with my location but was instead prompted by the lecture I was listening to on the way.
It was one of an excel-lent series produced by Knowledge Products discuss-ing the world’s political hot spots. Part history, part cur-rent affairs, these productions are an excellent introduction to unfamiliar places and a good refresher course on more familiar subject mat-ter. On this particular day, I was listening to a history of Germany, with a script by the celebrated libertarian histo-rian Ralph Raico.
What got me to thinking was the rise of totalitarian-ism in Germany. It didn’t start with the Nazis in the 1920s. The seeds were planted decades before, in London of all places. There, German expatriates Marx and Engels gave the European social-ist movements of the 19th century a harder and more revolutionary edge with their publication of The Communist Manifesto and other works.
The spread of Marxism prompted a reaction from threatened elites and European intellectuals who
tried to articulate a “Third Way” between commu-nism and capitalism. Their efforts resulted in Otto von Bismarck’s welfare state and copycat quasi-socialist legislation in France, Britain, Scandinavia and South America. (American populism and progressivism at the turn of the century were relatively moderate reflections of this worldwide revolution in ideas; it took war and depression to pave the way for true social-democrat legislation in the U.S.)
Later, post-WWI socialists such as Mussolini and Hitler married their totalitarian eco-nomics with national (Italy) or racial (Germany) appeals to create fascism. Both Marxism and fascism were then export-ed from Europe into the Third World, where regimes as dis-parate as Peron in Argentina, the strong-man states of liber-ated Africa, the Red Chinese, and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia all adapted collec-tivist ideologies to their own nefarious ends.
What’s my point? The ensuing regimes weren’t simply glorified kleptocra-
cies. They weren’t just new versions of the old-style des-potisms of hereditary kings and nomadic khans that had ruled over most of the globe for most of human history. These were ideological states where millions of people were persuaded to embrace and act on ideas that were, at their heart, evil.
The results were destitu-tion, destruction and death. Tens of millions of deaths – of civilians by the instigation of their leaders, not count-ing deaths of combatants in wartime.
I say all of this to make a point about ideas. Conservatives like to quote North Carolina native Richard Weaver’s observation that “ideas have consequences.” The phrase is intended as a rebuttal to those, often firmly ensconced in the Neverland of academia, who see history as merely the unfolding of class conflicts or other impersonal forces.
Ideas are powerful. They change minds and motivate behavior. They also are poten-tially dangerous. To take ideas seriously in an academic context should be to examine them thoroughly, to seek real understanding by considering alternative explanations and competing points of view. Provocation is not the goal.
Mere familiarity is not the goal. During much of the 20th century, elites from around the world sent their children to Paris to study at “universi-ties” that consisted of little more than indoctrination factories for the fashionable socialist ideologies of the day. These students learned, all right. They learned just enough of this rot to go home and try it out on their country-men, many of whom suffered and starved and died.
By all means, students should study influential ideas. They should study evil ideas. I certainly believe col-lege freshmen should read The Communist Manifesto. But they also should read selections from perceptive critiques of communism such as Thomas Sowell’s master-ful book Marxism and Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies. With these relatively works under their belts, students would have had an excellent basis for discus-sion.
This would be a case of taking ideas seriously. And seriousness is what they deserve. Never let anyone suggest that a book can’t be dangerous. Millions of ghosts would beg to differ.
Hood is chairman of the John Locke Foundation
Always take all ideas very seriously
I’m not a big late-night talk show fan, but I watched the last three shows of Late Night with David Letterman. No, I didn’t stay up until 12:30 a.m. watching Letterman. I recorded the show to watch at a more rea-sonable hour, say, 10 a.m.
Letterman is leaving Late Night after 33 years, and I wanted to see what he’d say as he took his last bow. Better yet, I’d like to know what he’ll say six months from now when people ask him if he misses his old job.
“Well, I miss the people,” he’ll likely say.
That’s what everybody says after retiring. “Do you miss going to work?” someone will ask. “Well,” the retiree says, “I miss the people.”
I’m retired now, and I miss the people. But I get
over it fairly easily, because now I can sleep late if I want to – except on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, when my wife’s annoying little smart phone tinkles and then sings at 5:30 a.m., telling us it’s time to get up and go to exercise class (this is my wife’s idea).
Now that I’m retired, I shave only when I’ll see someone who cares if I’ve shaved. There are not many of them. Well, actually, my wife wishes I’d shave more often, just to look nicer around the house. But I’ve shaved every day but Saturday for many moons,
and I’m giving my face a rest. It has retired, too.
If I want to go down-stairs, my hair uncombed, wearing my Tommy Hilfiger sleeping shorts and a ragged T-shirt from one of the news-papers I used to work with, I can do that. I can shuck corn outside in broad daylight wearing my Tommy Hilfiger sleeping shorts, even on a day when breadwinners are out winning bread.
I still write a good bit – that’s what I’m doing right now – but, thanks to retire-ment, I don’t have to dress up to write. In fact, I don’t even have to dress – forget the “up” part. You know, I’ve noticed that some of the best writers in the South are really ugly. My writing still has not improved, but I’m getting the ugly nailed down.
But guess what. Now
that I can afford to sleep late, I usually don’t. I wake up about 6 a.m., except, of course, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays when that stupid cellphone tinkles. If I lie there long enough, I might go back to sleep. Most often, I don’t.
“You need to get up and read or do something worth-while,” my inner self tells me. “You need to, you need to, you need to…”
“I’m retired,” my outer self says. “I need to be sleep-ing.”
So you can see that retire-ment is a mixed blessing. You’ll miss the people, and you’ll also miss the structure. But after you’ve filled that void, you’ll resort to the sec-ond saying of all retirees:
“I don’t know how I ever had time to work.”
Retirement can be mixed blessing
Memorial Day reminds us to take notice, give thanks
Hopefully your Memorial Day celebration was more than a little barbecue and time off from work with the kids. Monday could have been a time of reflection, edu-cation and thankfulness. And though the holiday is now over, the time is always right to honor lost veterans.
If your kids didn’t learn something about Memorial Day and why we have it over the long weekend, find time this week to teach them about it. If you didn’t learn something about Memorial Day, take time to teach your-self something, or go and find a veteran who can easily explain to you why its important.
Memorial Day, as you know, is the day set aside each year to honor veterans who died in active military service. There’s been some discussion and frustration in many venues the past few days that people believe it’s a day to honor all veterans, which it is not. We have Veterans Day for that. But the conversation should be a reminder that we shouldn’t only honor veterans – alive or dead – on one or two days out of the year. It’s a practice we should be keeping in mind at all times.
We also need to remember, and make sure our chil-dren understand, that Memorial Day honors veterans who lost their lives as recently as this year – not just those who died in conflicts that they learn about in his-tory class.
President Obama spoke to that in a recent online address to the nation.
“Like generations of Americans before them, these Americans gave everything they had,” the president said of recent military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Not for glory, not even for gratitude. But for something greater than themselves. We cannot bring them back, nor can we ease the pain of their families and friends who live with their loss. But we are the Americans they died to defend, so what we can do, what we must do, is fulfill our sacred obligations to them just like they fulfilled theirs to us. We have to honor their memory, we have to care for their families and our veterans who served with them. And as a nation, we have to remain worthy of their sacrifice – forever committed to the country they loved and the freedom they fought for and died for.”
Keep those words in mind this week, and every week. Not just on Memorial Day – or Veterans Day, for that matter.
entertainment on sched-uled Saturday nights.
• • •I watched about one
minute of the National Billboard Music Awards before turning it off. It was the filthiest thing I’ve ever seen on TV.
• • •It’s very annoying,
rude and inconsiderate to leave a barking dog on your porch all day when you’re gone.
• • •Tax increases: People
in town will have to pay an increase on water and sewer along with a property tax increase and a fire tax increase.
Basically, it seems they want all the poor people to move out of town.
• • •God never judged
same-sex couples. To him, all are equal. If you judge them you’re not worthy to be a Christian.
• • •Why are law enforce-
ment officers here always driving patrol cars with cell phones on their ears?
• • •“Us” really don’t have a
mind. We just have anon-ymous phones.
• • •As a part-time coun-
ty employee who was passed over for a full-time county position,
every county department head should read Patrick Gannon’s column about the nepotism investigation at the state level. That same investigation could easily happen here at the county level.
• • •Peace Of f icers
Memorial Day was May 15. The flag of the United States at the courthouse should have been flown at half-staff. It was not.
• • •Friday in front of
the Gazeb o the United States flag and the North Carolina flag were dis-played in reverse order.
• The Family/Caregiver Support Group will resume monthly meetings on Tuesday, June 2, at 7 p.m. at Memorial United Methodist Church, 4668 Old Murphy Road. The group is for indi-viduals that have a friend, family member or loved one living with a mental illness. The meetings are on the first Tuesday of each month. They are an opportunity to learn how peers deal with stress and emotional overload, and
to share concerns, successes and hope. A combination support group also meets at the church every Thursday from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Call 828-526-9510 for more informa-tion.
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Art & Entertainment
Outdoors
Fundraisers & Benefits
Announcements
Meetings
• The next Coffee with a Cop event will be held Friday, May 29, at 8:30 a.m. at Motor Company Grill, 86 W. Main St. The events allow the community to mingle with local police officers in a non-emergency setting.
• Boy Scout Troop 235 will host a memori-al event for former Scoutmaster Ray Romano on Sunday, May 31, at 2 p.m. at the Slagle Building, 109 Memorial Drive. The event will include speeches and the presentation of a plaque in Romano’s memory.
Calendar of events
• The Macon County Public Library will show Cesar Chavez starring Michael Pena, America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson as part of its Movies at MCPL movie series on Thursday, May 28, at 2 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. The movie runs for one hour and 42 min-utes and is rated PG-13. The library is located at 149 Siler Road.
• The Macon County Public Library will show White Heat starring James Cagney and Virginia Mayo on Friday, May 29, at 2 p.m. at 149 Siler Road. The movie runs one hour and 55 minutes.
• The High Mountain Squares will host their Memorial Day Dance on Friday, May 29, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building on U.S. 441 South. Stan Russell from Greer, South
Carolina, will be the caller. Mike McDonald and Debbie McClain from Clayton, Georgia, will cue rounds and lines. The event is Western-style square dancing, main/stream and plus levels. Everyone is welcome. Call 828-371-4946 for more information.
• Mountain Voices, a community chorus for men and women, will practice at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 1, in the chapel of First Baptist Church, 69 Iotla St. New singers are welcome to attend. Call 524-3644 for more information.
• Macon County’s senior citizens can “Travel With Us” for one more day at the Macon County Senior Center, 108 Wayah St. The center will show a “travelog DVDs” on the Barrier Reef on Tuesday, June 2, at 1 p.m. in the large conference room.
• The Relay for Life Day of Hope festivities will take place on Monday, June 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Gazebo Creekside Café, 44 Heritage Hollow Drive. The event will include a silent auction.
Health
• The Franklin Amateur Radio Club meet-ing will be held at Jaxon’s Downtown, 381 Depot St., on Thursday, May 28, at 11:30 a.m. Visitors are welcome to attend.
• The Gem and Mineral Society of Franklin will meet on Thursday, May 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building on U.S. 441 South. The program will include a talk with Chris Tacker, curator of geology for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Guests are wel-come and light refreshments will be served.
• A meeting of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society “South” will take place Saturday, May 30, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Macon County Public Library, 149 Siler Road. You could be Carpatho-Rusyn if your ancestors immi-grated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, lived in the Carpathian Mountains, were called Lemkos, Galicians, Rusnaks, Russians, Slavic, Greek Catholics, Orthodox or Byzantines. Guests are welcome to attend. Call George or Shelah Portoukalian at 828-369-3136 for more information.
• The Pine Grove School Community Center will hold its June meeting on Monday, June 1, at 7 p.m. at the old school located at the corner of Peeks Creek and Highlands roads. Final plans for the upcoming rummage sale will be discussed, and items for the sale may be brought to the school that night if desired. Plan to attend to receive your work assignment.
• Smoky Mountain Paddlers will host an informational meeting on Tuesday, June 2, at 7 p.m., for people of all ages and levels of canoeing, kayaking or stand-up paddle board-ing. Plans are to form an American Canoe Association Paddle America Club. Contact Guy Gooder at 828-421-4845 for more infor-mation.
• Jim and Ellen Shelton will lead a bird walk in the Walnut Creek area on Friday, May 29. Interested participants should meet at the BI-LO parking lot at 8 a.m. to carpool with the Franklin Bird Club. Call 828-524-5234 for more information and to register to attend.
• The Land Trust of the Little Tennessee will take part in a bird walk with Jack Johnston on Friday, May 29, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. The walk will explore the group’s Gibson Bottoms property to search for and identify bird species. The event is for ages 12 years old and older. Attendees must preregister by emailing [email protected].
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Members of the Battle of Sugartown Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution came together recently with local vol-unteers to clean and preserve the grave of Cpl. White. White died in the Battle of Sugartown on Sept. 10, 1782, which was one of the last battles between the U.S. military and Native Americans during the Revolutionary War. It took place in what later would become Macon County. White’s first name was not recorded. The orga-nization, along with students from Nantahala School, cleaned the old marble monument, placed there in 1896, along with cleaning up the grounds. A ceremony also was held to replace the gravesite’s flag and rededicate the site.
When a town built around the game of golf receives a visit from one of the greatest golfers of all time, the buzz carries across county and state lines.
Such was the case on Sunday, when World Golf Hall of Fame member Annika Sorenstam paid a visit to the Old Edwards Club in Highlands. Golf enthusiasts from as far away as Atlanta, Georgia, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, filed into the clubhouse to support a pair of worthy causes and enjoy an evening with a 10-time major champion.
“We could not be more excited to have Annika here with us on behalf of two amaz-ing programs,” Old Edwards Club Director of Operations Jerry West said. “The Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau is a charity that is still in its infancy but it is gaining momentum among our local folks at a great pace. The Annika Foundation has done so much work with children in Orlando and across the United States and those two organiza-tions are our reasons for being here.”
The night began with a mixer and was followed by a chef-prepared dinner. Both a live auction and silent auction allowed collectors to bid on autographed items from golf legends such as Sorenstam, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus as well as golf rounds and travel packages at some of the most exclusive golf destina-tions in the southern United States.
All the proceeds from the evening will be split between the Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau and the Annika Foundation.
“We opened our doors in September to 150 students that signed up and we aver-age approximately 70 to 80 students per day,” Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau President Marcia Shawler said. “We named our club the Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau because down the road we are hoping that Highlands and Sylva will eventually each have a Boys and Girls Club unit. It costs us about $3,400 per year per child to run our programs, so obviously that is a lot of money we have to raise each year and we are very thankful for the generosity of the people who have decided to spend their Memorial Day holiday weekend with us.”
The Annika Foundation is an outlet for Sorenstam to give back through the game of golf. The organization focuses on helping children lead active and healthy lives through both recreation and nutrition educa-tion.
Sorenstam is conducting her Annika Academy Golf Destination Experience at the Old Edwards Club this week. Her sister, former LPGA pro-fessional Charlotta Sorenstam, and personal trainer Kai Fusser are each instructors at the clinic.
“I founded the Annika Foundation in 2007 and we started out with health and fitness as a way to impact chil-dren,” Sorenstam said. “We use golf as a platform and we host several tournaments throughout the year to get kids together and inspire them to chase their dreams. I would not be here tonight without golf, and I just want to give back to both the game and to children.”
The crown jewel of the tournament schedule put on by the Annika Foundation is the Annika Invitational in Orlando, which features the 72 best female collegiate golf-ers in the country. The field is comparable to that of the NCAA championship and the Annika Sorenstam Award is given annually to the best female college golfer.
Sorenstam, who rose to be one of the top European amateur golfers in her home country of Sweden during her teen years, recalled her ascen-sion to the No. 1 world ranking as well as some of her most memorable golf moments.
The eight-time Rolex LPGA Player of the Year took time to remember her best career round when she
became the only woman to shoot 59 during a tour event at the 2001 Standard Register Ping in Phoenix.
“I birdied the first eight holes, and I circle every birdie on my card so I realized I had eight circles and I got nervous,” Sorenstam said. “I told my caddie I was so ner-vous I had to make a par and I did that on the ninth hole. I was playing with my sister and Meg Mallon and we started out talking a lot, but by the back nine we weren’t talking much. I birdied 10, 11, 12 and 13 then made a birdie on 17. By the time I got to the last hole I knew my birdie putt was for 58. I lipped it out on the
left but was able to compose myself and make the come-back putt for 59.”
Along with being the only woman to shoot 59 in a tour event, Sorenstam also is the last LPGA member to play in a men’s PGA tour tourna-ment. Memorial Day weekend marked the 12th anniversary of her appearance at Colonial in 2003.
“I played with Aaron Barber and Dean Wilson, who were both tour rookies, and I knew when we stepped on the first tee that they were as ner-vous as I was,” Sorenstam said. “Aaron came over and he put his hand on my shoulder and said ‘Let’s do this together’
and that gesture really calmed me down. Looking back, I am glad that I decided to play at Colonial, even though no pro-fessional ever wants to miss the cut. I needed that challenge and I needed to see how I would perform in that kind of spotlight. Someday I am going to tell my daughter that story and the message is going to be that women can do anything they set their mind to.”
Sorenstam retired from professional golf in 2008 with 72 career LPGA victories. She will serve as vice-captain of the European team in the Solheim Cup competition in 2015 and is likely to be the team’s captain in 2017.
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Golf legend Sorenstam drops by Highlands for fundraiser
Ryan Hanchett/Press photoAnnika Sorenstam spoke this weekend in Highlands.
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A hard day’s workKids got somewhat of an idea of what life might have been like if they were born 100 years ago during the Plow Days event this weekend at Deal Farms. The kids got to take part in a wagon ride, thanks to David Ashe of Sylva, and his horses, Luke and John. They also got to handle chicks that were hatched in Loretta Castner’s class at Mountain View Intermediate School. (Above) Four-year-old Harley Boone helps drive the wagon team. (Right) Five-year-old Channing Ray holds a chick. Plow Days events are held twice a year at Deal Farms - once in the spring and then again in the fall. This spring’s event wasn’t able to include some of the plows the event traditionally includes due to a scheduling conflict. (Linda Mathias/Press photos)
The sheriff’s department will be able to hire four additional full-time deten-tion center guards due to a significant savings regarding how involuntary commit-ments are handled. Mission Hospital agreed to monitor involuntary commitments earlier this year – a job pre-viously handled by a sher-iff’s deputy.
“We anticipate the cost savings to the sheriff’s department to be in the ball-park of $172,600,” Roland said. “That money will be used to add jail staff.”
Macon County EMS will be allotted money for two additional 911 dispatcher positions in the upcoming year. There have been no dis-patchers added to the EMS staff since 1994 when the 911 program began with two dispatchers at all times.
“That first year we had 10,339 calls come in to 911 dispatch,” Roland said. “Last year we had approximately 33,000 and we fielded those calls with the same number of people.”
The Macon County infor-
mation technology depart-ment is slated to receive $236,000 for improvements. A new phone system is going to cost the county $72,000 and a new SAN data storage network will eat up the rest of the balance.
“As many of you know, earlier this fiscal year we had an issue where we could not receive voicemail for a month, which hurt our abil-ity to communicate not only between departments but also with citizens who would call,” Roland said. “On the computer side, our SAN is full and it is taking pretty much constant maintenance to keep it going. Putting in a new SAN will increase our data capacity and sig-nificantly reduce the amount of money we are spending on maintenance.”
In the personnel portion of the ledger, Roland includ-ed a 2 percent cost of living pay adjustment for county employees. He also noted that the changes made to the county employee health insurance plan earlier this year will ensure that the plan is financially viable for the foreseeable future.
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The North Carolina Court System generated more than $460 million in direct economic impact last year, according to a study commissioned by the North Carolina Bar Association.
The Economic Impact of the North Carolina Court System on the North Carolina Economy report also revealed that more than 6,000 jobs were supported by the court system in fiscal year 2013-14.
When also taking account indirect and induced values, the court system generated $890 million in
total economic impact on the North Carolina economy and supported more than 9,000 North Carolina jobs.
“The study reveals what we have known all along – our courts have an enor-mous impact on our econ-omy and deserve adequate funding in order to serve the needs of North Carolina citi-zens and businesses,” said NCBA president Catharine Arrowood.
Copies of the survey have been provided to state legis-lators. The NCBA also has made the report available on its website, ncbar.org.
Court study shows economic impact
ObituariesJerry Charles Cabe
Jerry Charles Cabe, 57, of Mills River, passed away fol-lowing a lengthy battle with cancer on Thursday, May 21, 2015, at the John F. Keever Solace Center.
A native of Franklin, NC, he was the son of Arthur Cabe and Annie Ruth Dean Cabe. Jerry retired with 35 years of service as an industrial machinist at Norton Diamond & Tool/ Saint Gobain. He enjoyed cooking, woodworking and spending time with his family and his little dog, Kemoe.
In addition to his parents, he is sur-vived by his wife, Beverly Russell Cabe; two daughters, Shelley Graham (Will) of Weaverville, Melissa Cabe (Andrew Harlfinger) of Hilton Head, SC; one step-daughter, Molly Reed (Jason) of Black Mountain; three sisters, Audrey Henderson (Tom) of Otto, NC, Susan Bunn (David) of Middlesex, NC and Sara Wheeless (Mark) of Raleigh, NC as well as several nieces and nephews and one great niece.
A Memorial Service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at Macon Funeral Home. Rev. Bud Haire and Rev. Judson Hall will officiate.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to the ser-vice from 1-2 p.m. Saturday, at Macon Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial dona-tions be made to Cancer Treatment Centers Of America (www.cancercenter.com) to help cure colon cancer, CarePartners Hospice, PO Box 25338, Asheville, NC 28813 (www.carepart-nersfoundation.org) or to a charity of your choice.
Macon Funeral Home is in charge of the local arrange-ments.
Online condolences can be made at maconfuneralhome.com
Wayne Howard StewartWayne Howard Stewart, 79, passed away on Tuesday, May
19, after a determined battle with cancer. Services were held at 11 on Saturday, May 23, both at Macon Funeral Home. Macon Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open 31 trout streams and two lakes classified as delayed-harvest trout waters under hatchery-supported regulations on June 6 for kids.
The waters will be open only to
anglers 15 years old and younger from 6 a.m. to noon, when the waters open to all anglers. Delayed-harvest waters will stay open under hatchery-supported regulations through Sept. 30. Anglers can keep up to seven trout per day dur-ing this time with no bait restrictions
and no minimum size limits. The youth-only fishing hours are
designed to promote trout fishing among young anglers and to provide special opportunities for young anglers to catch and keep fish.
Trout regulations to shift June 6 on some waters
“They’re starting to call this program ‘No Child Left Alive,’” said John Henning Jr., school board attorney. “It would be nice if those moving targets would just stay still for a while,” added Macon County Schools Superintendent Chris Baldwin.
Arnold doesn’t believe it would be realistic to hope the numbers drop below 50 this summer. Though, if the requirements were the same as they had been in past years, she believes Macon would be doing better than usual.
“I think the kids are doing very well this year,” Arnold said. “Our literacy coaches and teachers have worked really, really hard with these kids using a vari-ety of different programs. The Lindamood Bell program is being used strongly in kinder-
garten through second grade and it’s been very successful. I think that if things were left like they were … our numbers would be even better than they were last year.”
School board chairman Jim Breedlove said he would like to see the board draft, approve and send a resolution to NCDPI about raising the third-grade reading standard so high so quickly.
“I’m just incensed, I’ll just be honest with you,” Breedlove said. “It may not do any good, but at least we can voice our opinion,” he said of a resolution.
The news is another frus-trating change for teachers after a number of decisions from the state in past years, board member Melissa Evans said. She feels for teachers who work diligently to get children to the required level, only to have the rug pulled
out from under them a year later.
“You get there and then they jump it out a little fur-ther,” she said. “You never can get it.”
The board approved the resolution, which will be drafted and sent to NCDPI.
Girls on the Run isn’t just about running, program members are quick to remind you. It’s about leadership, growth into a young adult and helping others in the community.
The girls most recently took part in an ongoing pro-gram to provide coloring books, crayons and hand-written letters for children to use after having X-rays taken at Angel Medical Center. The items can help get kids through what can be a scary time, while also being used as incentive for technicians to use in encouraging kids to stay still through the process.
And the girls at Iotla Valley Elementary School who support the program are glad to know their efforts have a big impact.
“If one of the kids had never had an X-ray and think it would be scary, the color-ing books might take their minds off it,” said third-grader Callie Baldwin, who is in the Girls on the Run
program. “I enjoy when other peo-
ple help me, and it feels real-ly good to be helping other people and putting a smile on their faces,” added fourth-grader Taylor Moss, who also is in the program.
Girls on the Run starts each February, and helps young girls grow their con-fidence through various proj-ects and lessons on topics such as peer pressure. The girls also run laps at each meeting, working toward the ultimate goal of taking part in a 5K at the end of the season. This year’s 5K took place in Asheville in front of a crowd of cheering fans.
The girls say what they’ve learned this year has been a big help in how they feel about themselves.
“We learn life lessons, basically,” Moss said. “You’d think it’s all about running, but it’s really not. It’s helped teach me a lot of great things about myself that I might not have recognized.”
Such as how important and unique each girl is.
“It helped me to see the
star in me and what life is about,” Baldwin said. “It inspired me to show people they are stars, too, and they just might not realize it yet.”
The two want others to come to that realization, and hope the coloring books let kids know someone is think-ing about them. The group has collected 50 books, 45 packs of crayons and a whole bunch of individually cre-ated cards to be tucked inside the books for kids to find, said Pauletta Clark, a Iotla Valley Elementary teacher who helps coordinate the program.
And just like Baldwin hopes, it does take kids’ minds off things a bit.
“As you can imagine, most of them are scared or they’re hurt or both, and when they come in and we do their X-rays and give them the coloring books with the little cards it just puts a smile on their face,” said Stephanie Allen, who works at the hos-pital’s radiology department. “It makes the whole having to be here thing a little bit better. I had one little girl
one time that told me, ‘I must have really been good to get this coloring book!’”
Messages like that are
just what the girls want to hear.
“It feels really, really good to know they won’t be
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Mike Parks/Press photoCallie Baldwin (left) and Taylor Moss show off some of the coloring books, cards and crayons the Girls on the Run program has collected for kids getting X-rays.
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With a 1-1 count, the Franklin senior got the pitch she was looking for, crushing a three-run home run over the fence in left center. The blast gave the Panthers some insurance runs in the sixth inning against Parkwood in the fourth-round 2-A NCHSAA playoff game.
“I couldn’t have been more excited,” Carpenter said.
FHS recorded three outs in a row in the top of the sev-enth, and defeated Parkwood 5-1 Friday at Macon Middle School.
The Panthers are in the regional championship series for the first time in school history.
“We’ve got a good team,” Carpenter said. “We stick together. We’ve got each oth-er’s back. Just a good group of girls.”
The Panthers (20-5) have won 11 straight games. They’ll play a best-of-three series against Forbush this week. The format: Tuesday at Forbush, Friday in Franklin, Saturday at Forbush (if nec-essary). All games will start at 7 p.m.
The winner of the region-al series will advance to next weekend’s state champion-ship.
Adam Tallent has guided the Panthers to their deepest run in school history in his second season as head coach.
“I’m so proud of them,” he said. “It’s all them.”
Two-out ralliesCaitlin Goembel and
Haeli Bryson also delivered huge hits for the Panthers, who outhit their opponents
10-2.Bryson hit a line-drive
solo homer in the third to tie the game at 1-1. It was her team-leading ninth homer this year. FHS has now hit 29 homers, including five in the
playoffs.The Panthers started a
two-out rally in the fifth, when Ashlynn Buchanan walked and Kaylee Corbin singled. Goembel then slapped the first pitch she saw into center field to give FHS a 2-1 lead.
The Panthers again start-ed a two-out rally in the sixth. Bryson and Madison Cousineau singled, setting the stage for Carpenter. The senior popped up a bunt attempt in her first at bat of the game, resulting in a double play. She got the sac-rifice down in her next at bat, but struck out the third time.
Franklin’s soccer team employed a specific strategy for its opponent in the fourth round of the state playoffs.
“We just played defen-sively,” coach Rita Esterwood said. “We knew we didn’t want them to score, and we hoped they’d make a mistake we could score off of.”
It proved to be a recipe for a victory. Nichole Ballant struck on one of the few scor-ing chances, and the Panthers earned a 1-0 overtime win Saturday at Lake Norman Charter.
The victory continues Franklin’s school-record run in the 2-A NCHSAA play-offs. No girls soccer team had ever been past the second round of the state playoffs in the previous 22 years of the program’s history (FHS competed in 3-A the first 21 years). The Panthers are now in the fifth round.
They were scheduled to play for a regional cham-
pionship Tuesday evening. Standing in the way between them and a state champion-ship appearance is Forbush, the No. 3 seed in the Western Regional.
A win over Forbush (20-3-1) would mean playing Saturday in Raleigh against either Carrboro or Dixon.
Franklin, the No. 5 seed, has eliminated the No. 4 (Ashe County) and No. 1 (Lake Norman Charter) seeds in the past two rounds.
The Panthers (17-3-1) earned their 16th shutout of the season by thwarting Lake Norman. The Knights (20-4) hadn’t allowed a goal in their three playoff wins, outscor-ing opponents 18-0.
The defensive-minded teams managed two shots apiece on goal in the first half.
“We tried to get the ball wide in the corners,” Esterwood said. “They have some pretty talented players that hold the ball.”
The Panthers man-aged to stay patient, while the Knights were becoming frustrated. Esterwood said experiencing the three loss-es at the end of the regular season might be helping the Panthers now, as they know what it’s like to not have things go their way.
Overtime is broken into two 10-minute halves. The Panthers scored approximate-ly six minutes into the first one, coming on a free kick. Defender Gracie Hornsby
sent the ball toward the net, finding Ballant’s feet. One-on-one with Lake Norman’s goalkeeper, Ballant calmly deposited the ball into the net.
It was Ballant’s 14th goal of the season. The senior for-ward has scored one goal in each playoff game.
Franklin principal Barry
Woody and athletic direc-tor Jay Brooks attended the game, as did a number of FHS fans.
“We had quite a few fans, so that was real nice to see,” Esterwood said.
The Panthers are quick-ly becoming road warriors. They traveled eight hours round trip in the third round
to Ashe County and seven hours to Lake Norman Charter. They’ll travel another seven hours Tuesday, and should they win, would make the trip to Raleigh for Saturday’s state champion-ship.
Just like the fourth-round game, the Panthers will be tasked with trying to score
against a team that is very stingy defensively. Forbush hasn’t allowed a goal in its four playoff wins, outscoring opponents 17-0.
The Falcons have 19 shutouts, compared to 16 for Franklin. Both teams have allowed 11 goals all season.
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Franklin soccer continues record playoff run
Photo/Tom PantaleoNichole Ballant scores a goal in Franklin’s second round win. The senior forward scored the game-winning goal Saturday at Lake Norman Charter, and has netted a goal in the first four state playoff games.
Softball team to play best-
of-3 series for regional title
Press photos/Andy Scheidler(Above) Franklin first baseman Samantha Barrett stretches to make the catch and record an out Friday against Parkwood. The Panthers
won 5-1 to advance to the regional championship for the first time in school history. (Below) FHS players celebrate after the final out.
Regional series
• No. 7 Franklin (20-5) vs. No. 1 Forbush (25-1)• Tuesday at Forbush, Friday at Franklin, Saturday at Forbush (if necessary); all games start at 7 p.m.• Winner plays either No. 9 South Granville or No. 2 Bunn in 2-A NCHSAA Championship
Regional
• No. 5 Franklin (17-3-1) vs. No. 3 Forbush (20-3-1)• Tuesday at Forbush• The winner plays either No. 1 Carrboro or No. 3 Dixon in the 2-A NCHSAA Championship
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The CMLG had their third outing and our game was cha-cha-cha, a one and a two and a three. The winners were Joyce Jacques, Jean Kimbro and Mary Manning with a net of 27. Great hitting, gals.
Rest of results for the day:A flight – net: M. Fickling 33, J. Merkle
32, B Shea 40, J. Welch 36B flight – net: S. Ehle 42, J. Jacques 29,
K. Kilian 33
C flight – net: B. Chown 35, J. Kimbro 30, M. Manning 36, J. Snider 36, M. White 32
The closest to the pin went to Joanne (hits ‘em straight) Merkle!
The next game will be Ace of the Month and regular golf, but watch for the next chal-lenge on June 3. You all won’t want to miss that one! Enjoy your week, keep swinging.
Submitted by Joyce Jacques
ment from Tallent and her-self, Carpenter managed to stay positive.
“You’ll get the next at bat,” Carpenter told herself. “And stay focused and not get down.”
Tallent reminded Carpenter to lay off the high pitches and make Parkwood’s pitcher bring the ball down into the strike zone.
“I told her she was gonna hit a gapper and score both of (the runners),” Tallent said. “She did better hitting it out.”
Parkwood (17-6) had allowed only three runs in its three playoff wins. Like Franklin, the Rebels started a freshman hurler.
The Panthers put constant pressure on Caroline Ruth and Parkwood’s defense. They managed to get two runners on base every inning.
“Even with us bunting them over and giving up the out, it puts the pressure on them to get the out,” Tallent said. “They came really close to throwing a few balls away. But they were a very sound defensive team.”
Bryson surrendered two hits.
Parkwood scored its only run after Bryson hit the No. 9 batter, followed by a Franklin error on the next batter. That set up a sacrifice fly that gave the Rebels a brief 1-0 lead.
After walking five bat-ters in the previous game, Bryson had her command in full control. She struck out five and relied on her defense to record outs. The Panthers committed only one error, and ended the game with a sliding catch from left fielder Haley Hamilton.
“(Bryson) pitched an excellent game against a great team,” Tallent said.
A large crowd attended
the game. Fans packed the area behind home plate and lined up down both foul lines all the way to the fence.
Carpenter said it’s one of, if not the biggest, crowds she’s played in front of at the MMS field.
“It makes me proud of where I come from,” said Carpenter, who’s signed to play for Montreat College. “Just the town and every-body coming to support us, it makes me feel good that we’ve got a good hometown. It will always be my home-town.”
Mountain teamsForbush, which is located
near Winston-Salem, is the No. 1 seed in the Western Regional. The Falcons are 25-1 and have won 20 straight games. Their only loss was a
1-0 decision at East Wilkes on March 26.
Since the Falcons are the higher seed (Franklin is No. 7), they’ll get to host the first and possibly last games of the series. They are 15-0 at home this season.
Tallent said he doesn’t mind a best-of-three series after playing elimina-tion games in the first four rounds.
“You never want to go somewhere and say, ‘We just had a bad game,’ and then that’s it,” he said. “I think this will be fine. Plus, it gives both teams a chance to win at their place.”
Franklin, along with Enka (3-A) and Hiwassee Dam (1-A) – two teams the Panthers played in the reg-ular season – are also in the regional championship
series. “People overlook us all
the time. They just think we’re mountain teams,” Tallent said.
“People have to start rec-ognizing. Which I don’t care. If they don’t think we can hit, that’s great, cause we’ll just go in hitting the ball.”
Although the Panthers are so close to reaching the state championship, to be held June 5-6 in Greensboro, they aren’t getting ahead of
themselves. After beating Parkwood and achieving school history by eclipsing the 2012 team that reached the fourth round and lost, the girls didn’t celebrate wild-ly or act crazy in the team huddle.
“This is just another thing, this is just another game,” Tallent said.
“They’re just ready to move on. They even said it, ‘One game at a time.’”
Thursday was a low gross and low net game for the Mill Creek Women’s Golf Association. Another beau-tiful day in the mountains. The winners of today’s game were:
• First flight: first place low gross was Vivian Buckwith a score of 80; low net was Felicia Nidiffer with a 63, and Joanne Merkle with 68
• Second flight: Low gross was Sylvia Cordon with a score of 92; low net was Lib
Raiford with 66, and Vivian Noble with 68
• Third flight: low gross was Judy Moore with a score of 94; low net was Mary Fickling with a 62, and Nancy La Flam with 73
There were three chip-ins: Vivian Buck, Gloria Doering and Carol Bingham. Closest to the pin on hole No. 6 was Carol Kitzner.
Anyone interested in join-ing, please call Mary Jordane at (824) 525-6025. We’d love to have you join!
Submitted by Jean Kimbro
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High Series–Male521 Don Stewart510 Ron Moore499 Earl Carlton
High Game–Female 158 Geraldine
Thompson 154 Roberta Hope 151 Rose Downie
High Series–Female 437 Rose Downie397 Roberta Hope389 Carlotta Crowe
Golden GirlsHigh Game–Female 227 Debbie Carver
178 Jean White 175 Betty Davis
High Series–Female551 Debbie Carver
497 Jean White463 Martha Rayborn
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High Game–Male 246 Will Emerson 227 Jesse Munger 224 Jerry Buckley
High Series–Male640 Jerry Buckley636 Jesse Munger
596 Brian Tilley
High Game–Female 165 Aubrey Bigmeat 159 Tina Shanklin
158 Jayne Buchanan
High Series–Female475 Aubrey Bigmeat464 Jayne Buchanan
461 Tina Shanklin
Crowd: Panthers thankful for fans’ support; to get 1 more game at homecontinued from 1B
Forbush came to Franklin last year in the second round of the state playoffs, winning 6-1.
Although the Panthers are one win from compet-ing for a state championship, Esterwood doesn’t think they’re looking ahead.
“We know it’s gonna to be real tough,” she said. “There are no preconceived notions that it will be a cakewalk.
“They know anywhere here on out is gonna take a lot of work. I think they’re aware and not cocky.”
Press photo/Andy ScheidlerHaley Hamilton makes a sliding catch for the final out in Friday’s 5-1 victory over Parkwood.
Rematchcontinued from 1B
Golf league weekly updatesCarolina Mountain Lady Golfers
Mill Creek Women’s Golf Association
Golf tournamentWhat: Sons of the American Legion 18th Annual Golf TournamentWhen: June 13Where: The Golf Club at Mill CreekFormat: Two-man captain’s choiceTime: 9 a.m. shotgun startCost: $65 ($55 for veterans)Proceeds: Help fun wheel-chair ramps, roof repairs, SCC scholarships, financial help for veterans and their familiesShootout: The Dale Tallent Shootout will be held June 4-5 and 11-12. It begins at 5 p.m. each day and is held on the sixth hole. Drinks and pizza will be provided.Deadline: June 6 for teamsContact: Jeff Henry at 421-7075
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The Best
YARD SALESStart right here
COMMUNITY YARD SALE!Friday & Saturday 8AM-? SylvaRoad to Brendle Road. Followsigns to several houses onroad offering a large variety ofgoods. Rain or shine.
MOVING SALEThurs-Sat 8-2:30 furniture: din-ing set w/china cabinet; sofa,tables, rugs, chairs; 2 oakdesks, refrigerator; reproduc-tion depression dishes, dia-mond point, Snow Village, ea-gles, misc. 28N to Bennett toRose Creek to 33 Rose CreekTrail.
PINE GROVE BAPTISTChurch WMU will host a yardsale in the church FellowshipHall, 7545 Highlands Rd. onSaturday, May 30 th at 8AM–2PM. Proceeds will go to Mis-sions. Bargains Galore!!
THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SAT-URDAY 8AM-3PM. New thingsadded each day. Everythingcheap. 26 Burnette Road justpast Macon Valley Nursinghome. Rain or shine.
MISCELLANEOUSYARD SALE
3 Family Yard Sale SaturdayMay 30 from 8 am till 3 pm. 106May Apple Lane 1 mile off air-port road on right, follow signs.
LANDSCAPING /YARD WORK
CARRION TREE SERVICESpecializing in dangerous treeremoval and total tree care.Free estimates. 24 hour re-sponse. Fully Insured withWorkman's Comp and Gen-eral Liability. Every call an-swered personally by Owner,Emmanuel Carrion, with aquote the same day!! (828)371-4718 or visit us at www.-carriontreeservice.com
LUCAS TREE SERVICE& STUMP GRINDING
Bobcat & Chipper. Licensedand insured. Experiencedand reliable. Available for allyour tree needs. No job toosmall or big. Free stumpgrinding with removal of tree.
(828)369-7459(828)371-8467
HOME REPAIR / MAINTENANCE
JAMISON CUSTOM PAINT-ING, staining, pressure wash-ing. Specializing in ridding yourproperty, log cabin and woodsiding of Carpenter Bees.(828)508-9727.
CONSTRUCTIONAA CONSTRUCTION
34 yrs experience. Refer-ences- Insured. Remodel, Ad-ditions, All phases of Painting,Rock Work, Pressure Wash-ing and Landscaping. Professionals in all areas. 828-734-3232
WE CAN BUILD you a newhome or fix the one youhave..... Handyman work. Nojob too big or small. NC li-censed General Contractor.Heating & air. Plumbing. Elec-tric. Mowing. Tree removal.Landscaping and more. Den-nis, (828)200-5296.
INSTRUCTIONSUMMER TUTOR- CERTIFIEDteacher with 46 years experi-ence; Tutoring in my home,your home, or the library. Mostsubjects from Grade 3 throughhigh school including ESL;Math through Grade 8. CallMary Duncan at (828)524-2214for rates and scheduling.
MISCELLANEOUSSERVICES
MISCELLANEOUSSERVICES
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES,Typing, Editing, Formattingdocuments, Resumes, APA for-matting, Bookkeeping andmore. Contact Denise at (828)371-7277 or [email protected].
C&C PUMPSWell pump sales, service andinstallations. Call DavidCheek (828)369-5176.
TJ's HOME CARE and Clean-ing Services. Established in1994. Residential/ Commeri-cail. Cleaning and Organizationservices, Pressure washing,Lawn Maintenance, GutterCleaning. Most home care ser-vices available. Free Estimates.(828)371-7277 or (828)371-0144.
GENERALEMPLOYMENT
GENERALEMPLOYMENT
GENERALEMPLOYMENT
CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR
High-end Construction Compa-ny, in Highlands N.C., lookingfor a highly motivated and de-pendable individual for a full-time supervisor position. Mustbe able to work and communi-cate with sub-contractors andcustomers alike. Duties wouldinclude daily management ofbuilding projects. Must haveconstruction background.Please send information to:Construction, PO Box 147,Highlands, N.C., 28741
EXPERIENCED GLAZIER andglass work trainee for work inthe Franklin/ Cashiers area.Apply at The Glass Shoppe,Inc., 3145 Old Murphy Road,Franklin or call (828)349-0088.
Jewelry Sales Assistant need-ed. Full time Seasonal position.June thru November in High-lands, NC. Must be experi-enced in high end jewelry salesand with Microsoft Office. Emailresume to: [email protected]
METHODIST HOME FORCHILDREN is seeking to hireMale and Female ResidentCounselors in Franklin, NC.Must have a high school diplo-ma/ GED and experienceworking with youth.Overnights/ weekends/ holi-days required. View job de-scriptions and apply online:www.mhfc.org
MOUNTAIN PRESS is seek-ing part-time mailroom work-ers to process newspapers formailing and delivery. Requiresthe ability to lift 50 lbs on aregular basis and the ability tostand for extended periods oftime. Approximately 20-26hours per week. Must be ableto work a flexible schedule,Monday through Thursday.Applications are available atthe Franklin Press, 40 DepotStreet, Franklin, NC. Nophone calls please.
MOUNTAIN PRESS is seek-ing part-time mailroom work-ers to process newspapers formailing and delivery. Requiresthe ability to lift 50 lbs on aregular basis and the ability tostand for extended periods oftime. Approximately 18-26hours per week. Must be ableto work a flexible schedule,Monday through Thursday.Applications are available atthe Franklin Press, 40 DepotStreet, Franklin, NC. Nophone calls please.
NOW HIRING TECHNICIANSUp Dish Services is now hiringtechnicians in your area. Basepay plus commissions andbonuses available. Paid train-ing. Visitwww.upcomllc.com/careers toapply or call (931) 571-2215.
Office Assistant needed. Sea-sonal position (June thruNovember) in Highlands, NC.Must have strong computerskills & have ability to operatemulti-line phones. Hours:10:00am-3:00pm Monday thruFriday. Email resume to: [email protected]
OmniSource Staffing is cur-rently accepting applications atthe OmniSource office locatedat 80 Bryson Walk, BrysonCity, NC 28713 for the posi-tions of: * Assembly * Quality Inspectors * Material Handlers * Finishing Press Operators * Molding Press Operators * Painting OperatorsPay rates start at $11.00 perhour. These are temp to hire posi-tions for the right individuals. Ifyou are hard working, depend-able, have a verifiable work his-tory, and are looking for a goodjob with a great company, wewant to talk to you.Direct Hire positions are alsoavailable DOE. We are hiringvalet drivers on behalf of aclient company in the Cherokeearea. These are direct full timepositions. The starting pay$7.25 per hour PLUS tips. Thisis a great company with greatbenefits........must be able todrive both automatic and stan-dard vehicle's and have 6months previous valet experi-ence. For more information call us at(828) 538-4328 or visit us atwww.omnisource.net. You canalso visit Careerbuilder,Ziprecrutier or Indeed and typein the key word "OmniSourceStaffing" for complete informa-tion on these great opportuni-ties. If you are a recent gradu-ate and are looking to go into agreat career come by and seeus.Must bring two forms of id Be able to pass drug screenand background check OmniSource Staffing is an EOE
PEER SUPPORTSPECIALIST
Multiple positions open forPeer Support Specialistsworking within a number of re-covery oriented programswithin our agency. Being aPeer Support Specialist pro-vides an opportunity for indi-viduals to transform their ownpersonal lived experience withmental health and/ or addic-tion challenges into a tool forinspiring hope for recovery inothers. Applicants mustdemonstrate maturity in theirown recovery process, have avalid driver's license, reliabletransportation and have mod-erate computer skills. For fur-ther information contact [email protected] CountyClinicianAssertive Community Treat-ment Team - (ACTT)Seeking an energetic and pas-sionate individual to join theAssertive Community Treat-ment Team in the beautifulmountains of western NorthCarolina. Come experiencethe satisfaction of providingrecovery oriented serviceswithin the context of a strongteam wraparound model. Ifyou are not familiar withACTT, this position will pro-vide you with an opportunity toexperience an enhanced ser-vice that really works! Musthave a Master's degree andbe licensed/ license-eligible. Macon CountyClinicianRecovery Education Center(REC)Seeking passionate, values-driven and dynamic profes-sional to join our Macon Coun-ty Recovery Education Center.This program reflects a uniquedesign which integrates edu-cational, clinical and peer sup-port components in a center-based milieu. To be consid-ered, an applicant should befamiliar with the recoveryparadigm of mental health andsubstance abuse services. AMaster's degree and licenseeligibility are also required.For further information and tocomplete an application, visitour website: www.meridianbh-s.org
Scudder's Galleries, Highlands-Stockroom / Warehouse, sea-sonal, Monday – Saturday. Parttime / Full time depends onavailability 828-526-4111
VIBE SALON has an openingfor a Hair Stylist and a NailTech. For details call Helene at(828)524-0016.
WORKERS NEEDEDLaborer/Lumber Packer $9-$11.50 and Forklift Operator$9-$12. Day shift. Excellentbenefit package. Drug screen-ing and Safety-toed shoes re-quired. Apply in person M-F atT&S Hardwoods, 3635 SkylandDrive, Sylva.
FOOD SERVICES
Mountain Fresh Grocery inHighlands is hiring full-time forfollowing departments.
Baristas , Cashiers Grill, Deli Pizza Butcher shop Assistant
Applicants should apply in per-son or email resume [email protected]
GREAT OPPORTUNITIESFull Time Food Service Work-ers wanted @ Highlands-Cashiers Hospital-Experiencepreferred-Great Benefits. Ap-ply in person 8am-3pm
LINE COOKS & DISHWASH-ERS WANTED! $10-$14 based on experience.Private Club. Apply to [email protected]
LOOKING FOR PART TIMEhelp for our Franklin LittleCaesars located inside Kmart.No experience necessary.Flexible working hours. Pleaseapply on line at www.searshc. -com
WENDY'SNow Hiring
Team Members and Managers
for 3 locations in your area.We will be conducting a JobFair at our Franklin NC loca-tion on June 3rd and 4th from3:00pm until 6:00pm. We Of-fer:
CNAs NEEDED Full time. Part time, PRN for inhome care. For more informa-tion, please call (828)524-6444.
RETAILSales Associate- For High endretail clothing store in High-lands, NC. Year round, parttime to full time, must be avail-able to work weekends. Retailclothing sales experience pre-ferred. Please call (828)200-0928
PART TIME
PART TIME
MULTIPLE OPENINGS!Part-time with full-time poten-tial. No experience neces-sary. Students welcome. Ex-cellent team environment.Background check and drugscreening required. Apply atwww.HHFjobs.com.
PART TIME OVERNIGHTAwake Staff needed for resi-dential facility in Franklin.Hours: 10PM-7AM, Friday andSaturday nights. Visitwww.mhfc.org for completejob description and to applyonline.
PT Nights, Friday – Saturday.Auction Clerk. Attention to de-tail a must. Highlands (828)526-4111
RECEPTIONIST/ SECRE-TARY- Part time. 24 hours perweek. Small business. Dutiesinclude producing computer in-voices and answering phone.Interested person can makecontact at [email protected] call (828)524-2509 and leavemessage.
AUCTIONS
CABINET & WOODWORKING SHOP
AUCTIONLeatherman Gap Road
Franklin, NCSaturday, May 30, 9:00am
Directions: From Franklin,take Hwy 28 toward Bryson City. Just past Cowee BaptistChurch turn right on Cowee Creek Road and go approxi-mately 2 miles. Bear left onto Leatherman Gap Road & goapproximately 2 miles - Auc-tion on right.Owner Retiring. Selling Con-tents of Cabinet & Woodwork-ing Shop & Outbuildings,Gazebo and more. Most Itemscommercial quality. For com-plete listing and pictures go towww.thadwoodsauction.comor www.auctionzip.comPreview: May 30, Saturday,8:00am until sale time.IMPORTANT: BRING CHAIR-this will be an all day auctionAuction Conducted ByThad Woods NCAL 988Stacy Woods NCAL 6760Waynesville, NC 28786
828-421-4174
FURNITURE
LARGE DRESSER WITH mir-ror, Queen size bed, end table.Excellent condition. Mahoganydining room suite with 3 leaves& 6 chairs. (828)371-3470.
HOMES FOR RENT3BR IN TOWN. $700/Mo. $300security. (828)342-8454.AVAILABLE MID JULY- Car-toogechaye area. 4,000 sq.ft.house for rent or option to buy.8 miles from town. 4BR/3.5BA.Sits on 10 acres and bordersUSFS land. $1,800/mo with op-tions. (828)524-6293.BEAUTIFUL, UNFURNISHEDHOME with 2,000 sq.ft.. Twomiles from Middle School/ newWal-Mart. First level has2BR/1BA, living room, kitchen,w/d hook-up, covered deck.Upper level has 1BR/1BA, liv-ing room, kitchen with all appli-ances, huge sunroom, deck.Each level has C/H/A, carpetplus Vermont wood stoves.T&G wood throughout entirehouse. Paved driveway withlarge parking area. Private set-ting with mountain views. Ser-vice animals only. Proof of in-come and references required.$950/mo. plus deposit. Preferrent to own. (828)389-2296.HOMES FOR RENT. Call(828)421-9008 or visitwww.FranklinHomeStore.com
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HOMES FOR RENT
ROOM FOR RENT $350Room for rent in 2br/2ba homein Franklin. Includes Water,Electric, Cable.Call 239-823-4345
APARTMENTSFOR RENT
(2) 2BR/1BA APARTMENTS. Intown on First Street. Easy ac-cess. C/H/A. $675/mo. + de-posit. (828)524-6166.
2Br/1Ba Apartment. Newlypainted , new carpet, new A/C.Quiet neighborhood. Walk toshopping. 495./mo. 706-776-6000.
HARRISON GARDEN RETIRE-MENT Apartments; 2BR/2BA$550 & Walnut Grove Retire-ment Apartments, 1BR/1BA$375. Security & cleaning de-posits. Smoke free. Year lease.(828)369-5555.
SPACIOUS 1 BEDROOM du-plex in Otto. Upstairs or down-stairs available. All appliancesincluding w/d. $450/mo. Todd,((828)342-3933.
CONDOS FOR RENT
FOR RENT OR SALE- Spa-cious, deluxe condo in HollySprings. 3BR/2.5BA. Separatedining room. Central HVAC.Large living room with fireplace.All electric. W/D. Customdrapes, carpet, tile. Rent$775/mo. Sell $99,000. Todd,(828)342-3933.
MOBILE HOMESFOR RENT
2 BEDROOM mobile home. In-cludes city water. $500/mo or$125/wk. (828)524-7973.2BR/1BA ON CULLASAJARIVER. Carport. Includesground maintenance. Lots ofprivacy. Big yard. $550/mo.(828)369-7550, (305)663-7411.BEAUTIFUL, INEXPENSIVETRAILERS! 3BR/2BA,2BR/2BA starting at$375.00/mo. Good location.Clean park. HUD OK. (828)332-1827, (828)342-8470.Email [email protected] HOME in town. Pri-vate area. 2BR/1BA. $450/mo.Todd, (828)342-3933.ONE WEEK FREE. Small 1bedroom, includes utilities. $75weekly. (828)349-1715.OTTO- ON POND. Newly reno-vated 2BR/1BA home. Likenew. $450/mo. Todd, (828)342-3933.
COMMERCIAL FOR RENT
DEPOT STREET 3,000 sq.ft.$1,650/mo., or 1,500 sq.ft.,$850/mo. Suitable for retail orrestaurant. Shopping center in-cludes Tag Agency, InsuranceCompany. Close to Post Office.(828)369-7550, (305)663-7411.OFFICE SPACE- DEPOTSTREET. Utilities included. Call(828)524-2509 and leave mes-sage.
HOMES FOR SALE4BR/2BA ON 3+ beautiful acreswith wrap-around covereddeck. Great yard. Huge gardenarea. Awesome mountainviews. Crystal clear troutstream & much more.$275,000. (828)349-1449.
Coastal Georgia Cottage3bd/2ba home located in his-toric St. Marys Georgia. Golfcourse and marsh views.$219,000. Call 904-206-3530
MOBILE HOMESFOR SALE W/LAND
3BR/2BA DOUBLEWIDEHOME with fireplace, C/H/A, in-cludes W/D. on 1.4 acres,Westwood Estates. $95,000.(828)371-3470.OTTO- 3BR/2BA DOU-BLEWIDE; Furnished. Moun-tain views. ½ acre lot. $79,900.Seller financed. (828)524-7973.
MOBILE HOMESFOR SALE
2BR/1BA IN ADULT park. 3miles from Franklin. Roof over.Covered porch. Utility shed.$10,000 OBO as is. (828)369-3641 or (828)421-6941.BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN 2BR/2BAsinglewide in well maintainedpark in town. Private. Includingall appliance, W/D, C/H/A. Dou-ble carport. Screened porch.$10,900. (828)506-0120.FIXER UPPER; 2 bedroom.Clarks Chapel. $2,500. (828)524-7973.
LEGALS
NOTICE OFFORECLOSURE SALE
15SP48
NORTH CAROLINA, MACON COUNTY
Under and by virtue of a Power
of Sale contained in that certainDeed of Trust executed byMichael L. Foust and ReneeZimmick to Jackie Miller, Trustee(s), which was dated February28, 2008 and recorded onFebruary 29, 2008 in Book CRPC
C-32 at Page 1166 andrerecorded/modified/corrected onMay 12, 2009 in Book CRP A-33,Page 1414, Macon CountyRegistry, North Carolina.
Default having been made ofthe note thereby secured by thesaid Deed of Trust and theundersigned, Trustee Services ofCarolina, LLC, having beensubstituted as Trustee in saidDeed of Trust, and the holder ofthe note evidencing said defaulthaving directed that the Deed ofTrust be foreclosed, theundersigned Substitute Trusteewill offer for sale at thecourthouse door of the countycourthouse where the property islocated, or the usual andcustomary location at the countycourthouse for conducting thesale on June 4, 2015 at11:30AM, and will sell to thehighest bidder for cash thefollowing described propertysituated in Macon County, NorthCarolina, to wit:
Tract OneBeing all of Lot 39, easements,
privileges and appurtenances asare described in a conveyed bythe Deed dated February 22,2008, from Leonard Frishman,P.A. as Trustee, and LeonardFrishman, a single person,individually to Michael L. Foustand Renee Zimmick, recorded inDeed Book C-32 at Pages 1164-1165, Macon County LandRegistry, North Carolina, to whichreference is hereby made for amore complete and accuratedescription.
Tract TwoBeing all of Lot 40, easements,
privileges and appurtenances asare described in and conveyedby the Deed dated February, 7,2008, from MorningstarInvestments, LLC, to Michael L.Foust, recorded in Deed Book C-32 at Pages 1161-1163, MaconCounty Land Registry, NorthCarolina, to which reference ishereby made for a morecomplete and accuratedescription.
Save and except any releases,deeds of release or priorconveyances of record.
Said property is commonlyknown as 189 Golf Estates Roadand Lot 39 Adjacent to 189 GolfEstates Road, Franklin, NC28734.
A cash deposit (no personalchecks) of five percent (5%) ofthe purchase price, or SevenHundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00),whichever is greater, will berequired at the time of the sale.Following the expiration of thestatutory upset bid period, all theremaining amounts areimmediately due and owing.THIRD PARTY PURCHASERSMUST PAY THE EXCISE TAXAND THE RECORDING COSTSFOR THEIR DEED.
Said property to be offeredpursuant to this Notice of Sale isbeing offered for sale, transferand conveyance AS IS WHEREIS. There are no representationsof warranty relating to the title orany physical, environmental,health or safety conditionsexisting in, on, at, or relating tothe property being offered forsale. This sale is made subjectto all prior liens, unpaid taxes,any unpaid land transfer taxes,special assessments,easements, rights of way, deedsof release, and any otherencumbrances or exceptions ofrecord. To the best of theknowledge and belief of theundersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are MichaelL. Foust and wife, ReneeZimmick.
An Order for possession of theproperty may be issued pursuantto G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of thepurchaser and against the partyor parties in possession by theclerk of superior court of thecounty in which the property issold. Any person who occupiesthe property pursuant to a rentalagreement entered into orrenewed on or after October 1,2007, may, after receiving thenotice of sale, terminate therental agreement upon 10 dayswritten notice to the landlord.The notice shall also state thatupon termination of a rentalagreement, the tenant is liable forrent due under the rentalagreement prorated to theeffective date of the termination.
If the trustee is unable toconvey title to this property forany reason, the sole remedy ofthe purchaser is the return of thedeposit. Reasons of suchinability to convey include, butare not limited to, the filing of abankruptcy petition prior to theconfirmation of the sale andreinstatement of the loan withoutthe knowledge of the trustee. Ifthe validity of the sale ischallenged by any party, thetrustee, in their sole discretion, ifthey believe the challenge tohave merit, may request thecourt to declare the sale to bevoid and return the deposit. Thepurchaser will have no furtherremedy.
Trustee Services of Carolina,LLCSubstitute TrusteeBrock & Scott, PLLCAttorneys for Trustee Services ofCarolina, LLC5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200Wilmington, NC 28403PHONE: (910) 392-4988FAX: (910) 392-8587File No.: 15-04739-FC0105/20/15-05/27/2015 #166706
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE
OF NORTH CAROLINASUPERIOR COURT DIVISION
MACON COUNTY15SP21
IN THE MATTER OF THEFORECLOSURE OF A DEEDOF TRUST EXECUTED BYBRYAN QUINN AND LINDAQUINN DATED JANUARY 26,2009 AND RECORDED INBOOK CRP V-32 AT PAGE 580IN THE MACON COUNTYPUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTHCAROLINA
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the powerand authority contained in theabove-referenced deed of trustand because of default in thepayment of the securedindebtedness and failure toperform the stipulation andagreements therein containedand, pursuant to demand of theowner and holder of the secureddebt, the undersigned substitutetrustee will expose for sale atpublic auction to the highestbidder for cash at the usual placeof sale at the county courthouseof said county at 10:00AM onJune 12, 2015 the followingdescribed real estate and anyother improvements which maybe situated thereon, in MaconCounty, North Carolina, andbeing more particularly describedas follows:BEING Lot# 75 of TrimontMountain Estates Replat ofBlock-A as shown on the platthereof recorded in Plat Cabinet1 Slide 83 Page 4 Macon CountyLand Registry prepared from asurvey by Larry M DeHartRegistered Land SurveyorReference is hereby made tosaid plat for a more completedescription of the property herebyconveyed.THE GRANTOR further conveysto the Grantee the right to use incommon with all others who nowhave or may hereafter acquirethe right to use the sameeasements for the roadwaysrunning from the property herebyconveyed to the public road.THIS CONVEYANCE is madesubject to the restrictionsconditions exceptions andreservations set forth in the deedrecorded in Book Y-17 Page 122Macon County Land Registry andin the Declaration recorded inBook M-23 Page 1921 MaconCounty Land Registry Referenceis hereby made to saiddocuments for a more completedescription of said restrictionsconditions exceptions andreservations.SUBJECT TO AND INCLUDINGAll rights of ways, easementsrestnct1ons and matters asshown on said platAnd Being more commonlyknown as: 836 Woodland Hts,Franklin, NC 28734The record owner(s) of theproperty, as reflected on therecords of the Register of Deeds,is/are Bryan T. Quinn and LindaA. Quinn.The property to be offeredpursuant to this notice of sale isbeing offered for sale, transferand conveyance "AS IS, WHEREIS." Neither the Trustee nor theholder of the note secured by thedeed of trust, being foreclosed,nor the officers, directors,attorneys, employees, agents orauthorized representative ofeither Trustee or the holder of thenote make any representation orwarranty relating to the title orany physical, environmental,health or safety conditionsexisting in, on, at or relating tothe property being offered forsale. Any and all responsibilitiesor liabilities arising out of or inany way relating to any suchcondition expressly aredisclaimed. This sale is madesubject to all prior liens andencumbrances, and unpaid taxesand assessments including butnot limited to any transfer taxassociated with the foreclosure.A deposit of five percent (5%) ofthe amount of the bid or sevenhundred fifty dollars ($750.00),whichever is greater, is requiredand must be tendered in the formof certified funds at the time ofthe sale. This sale will be heldopen ten days for upset bids asrequired by law. Following theexpiration of the statutory upsetperiod, all remaining amounts areIMMEDIATELY DUE ANDOWING. Failure to remit funds ina timely manner will result in aDeclaration of Default and anydeposit will be frozen pending theoutcome of any re-sale. If thesale is set aside for any reason,the Purchaser at the sale shall beentitled only to a return of thedeposit paid. The Purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Mortgagor, theMortgagee, the SubstituteTrustee or the attorney of any ofthe foregoing.SPECIAL NOTICE FORLEASEHOLD TENANTS: If youare a tenant residing in theproperty, be advised that anOrder for Possession of theproperty may be issued in favorof the purchaser. Also, if yourlease began or was renewed onor after October 1, 2007, beadvised that you may terminatethe rental agreement upon 10days written notice to thelandlord. You may be liable forrent due under the agreementprorated to the effective date ofthe termination.The date of this Notice is May22, 2015.
Grady I. Ingle or Elizabeth B. EllsSubstitute Trustee10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400Charlotte, NC 28216(704) 333-8107http://shapiroattorneys.com/nc/15-06764305/27/15-06/03/15 #168407
Notice of Objection Process
Draft Decision NoticeUSDA Forest Service
Nantahala Ranger DistrictNantahala National ForestChattooga River Boating
Access ProjectJackson and Macon Counties,
North Carolina
The Nantahala National Forest,Nantahala Ranger District, hascompleted the Chattooga RiverBoating Access EnvironmentalAssessment (EA) and DraftDecision Notice. Under theproposed action, the ForestService will construct anddesignate trails and requireboaters to start or complete theirtrip only at specific boater accesspoints at Greens Creek Trail,County Line (aka Norton Mill),
y ( )and Bull Pen Bridge to facilitateboating on the upper segment ofthe Chattooga WSR during thedesignated boating season. Thetrails will also provide foot accessfor other forest visitors. Thisdecision authorizes use onnational forest system lands onlyper the conditions of theChattooga Wild and Scenic RiverSelf-Registration Floating Permit.This alternative, including designcriteria, best meets the Purposeand Need as stated in the EA.
The EA and draft DecisionNotice/FONSI are available on-line at:http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=42568 or by contacting thedistrict office.
The project is an activityimplementing a landmanagement plan and is subjectto the pre-decisional objectionprocess at 36 CFR 218 SubpartsA and B. A written objection,including attachments, must bepostmarked or received within 45days after the date that notice ofthis draft decision is published inThe Franklin Press. Thepublication date of the legalnotice in the newspaper of recordis the exclusive means forcalculating the time to file anobjection [see 218.26(a) and218.32(a)], and those wishing toobject should not rely upon datesor timeframe informationprovided by any other source.
Objections will be acceptedonly from those who havepreviously submitted specificwritten comments regarding theproposed project during scopingor other designated opportunityfor public comment inaccordance with 218.5(a). Issuesraised in objections must bebased on previously submittedtimely, specific written commentsregarding the proposed projectunless based on new informationarising after designatedopportunities for public comment.
Objections, includingattachments, must be filed viamail, fax, email, hand-delivery,express delivery, or messengerservice (Monday through Friday,8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excludingholidays) to: Reviewing OfficerKristin Bail, Forest Supervisor,National Forests in NorthCarolina, 160 Zillicoa Street,Suite A, Asheville, NC 28801-1082, 828-257-4200 (voice), 828-259-0523.
Electronically filed objectionsmay be submitted by email inword (.doc or .docx), rich textformat (.rtf), text (.txt), andhypertext markup language(.html) to [email protected] or organizations whomeet the requirements of 36 CFR218.5 may object to this decision.Objections must meet minimumcontent requirements describedin 36 CFR 218.8(d). Evidence oftimely filing is described in 218.9.Incorporation of documents byreference is permitted only asprovided for at 218.8(b). Pleasestate Chattooga River BoatingAccess Project in the subject linewhen providing electronicobjections, or on the envelopewhen replying by mail.
For further information on thisproposal, contact Mike Wilkins,District Ranger, 90 Sloan Road,Franklin, NC 228734, telephone:(828) 524-6441, FAX (828) 369-6592.05/27/2015 #167880
CREDITOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as AncillaryPersonal Representative for theEstate of CURTIS SCOTTDARNELL, deceased, late ofForsyth County, Georgia, this isto notify all persons having claimagainst the Estate of saiddeceased to exhibit them to theundersigned on or before the 4thday of August, 2015, or thisNotice will be plead in bar of theirrecovery. All persons indebted tosaid Estate will please makeimmediate settlement.This the 6th day of May, 2015.
Janice S. DarnellAncillaryPersonal Representativec/o Russell R. BowlingAttorney for the Estate77 West Main StreetFranklin, NC 2873405/06/15-05/27/15 #162708
CREDITOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as PersonalRepresentative of the estate ofDaniel Ray McGaha, deceased,late of Macon County, NorthCarolina, this is to notify allpersons having claims againstthe estate of said Daniel RayMcGaha, deceased, to exhibitthem to the undersigned on orbefore the 4th day of August,2015, or this Notice will be pled inbar of their recovery. All personsindebted to said estate willplease make immediatesettlement.
This the 6th day of May, 2015.
Donna McGahaPersonal Representative
Karen L. Kenney, Process AgentKenney, Sloan & Vanhook, PLLC111 Heritage Hollow DriveFranklin, NC 2873405/06/15-05/27/15 #163242
CREDITOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as PersonalRepresentative for the Estate ofBETTY E. COCHRAN,deceased, late of Macon County,North Carolina, this is to notify allpersons having claim against theEstate of said deceased toexhibit them to the undersignedon or before the 11th day ofAugust, 2015, or this Notice willbe plead in bar of their recovery.All persons indebted to saidEstate will please makeimmediate settlement.This the 13th day of May, 2015.
Amy Cochran ByrdPersonal Representativec/o Russell R. BowlingAttorney for the Estate77 West Main StreetFranklin, NC 28734 05/13/15-06/03/15 #164041
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as Executor ofthe estate of Marilyn J. Zagorski,deceased, late of Macon County,North Carolina, this is to notify allpersons having claims againstthe estate of said deceased toexhibit them to the undersignedon or before the 12th of August2015, or this Notice will be pled inbar of their recovery. All personsindebted to said estate willplease make immediatesettlement.This the 13th day of May, 2015.
Kyle McCall (Executor)165 Iotla Church RoadFranklin, NC 2873405/13/15-06/03/15 #164275
IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE NORTH CAROLINA
SUPERIOR COURT DIVISIONBEFORE THE CLERK
MACON COUNTY
15-SP-43
R. S. JONES, JR.,ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
ESTATE OF RONNIE FLOYDSTANFIELD, DECEASED
Petitioner, vs.JOHNNIE F. STANFIELD,INDIVIDUALLY, KATIE S.WATTS, INDIVIDUALLY, andMARTY STANFIELD,INDIVDUALLY,
Respondents.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of a FinalJudgment and Order to Sell RealProperty directed to theundersigned Administrator of theEstate of Ronnie Floyd Stanfield,deceased, from the Clerk ofSuperior Court of Macon County,North Carolina, in the aboveentitled action, under date of May14, 2015, I will, on the 9th day ofJune, 2015, at 12:00 noon at thedoor of the Macon CountyCourthouse, in Franklin, MaconCounty, North Carolina, offer forsale to the highest bidder forcash, all right, title and interestwhich the said Ronnie FloydStanfield, deceased, owned athis death, in and to the followingdescribed real estate, lying andbeing in the Franklin Township,Macon County, North Carolina,and being described as follows:All the lands owned by RonnieFloyd Stanfield at the date of hisdeath as are more particularlydescribed in the deed dated June16, 2003 from Martha Stanfield,unmarried, to Ronnie FloydStanfield, and recorded in BookB-27 at pages 1016-1017, MaconCounty Public Records,reference to which is hereby had.The high bidder shall be
required to deposit with theAdministrator, immediately uponconclusion of the sale, a cashdeposit of five per cent (5%) ofthe bid price, but not less than$750.00 The successful biddershall be required to tender the fullbalance of the purchase price sobid, in cash or certified funds, atthe time the Administratortenders to him a deed for theproperty, or attempts to tendersuch deed, and should saidsuccessful bidder fail to pay thefull balance of the purchase priceso bid, he shall remain liable onhis bid. This sale will be made subject to
upset bids as by law provided.The lands being sold will be
subject to Macon County taxesfor the years 2012, 2013 and
2014.This the 21st day of May, 2015.
R. S. Jones, Jr., Administrator ofthe Estate of Ronnie FloydStanfield05/27/15-06/03/2015 #168035
PUBLIC NOTICE
Apex Towers, LLC proposes toconstruct a 175-foot overallheight monopoletelecommunications structure.The structure would be locatedoff Windy Gap Road, Franklin,Macon County, North Carolina,Tax Parcel ID: 6585662565.Apex Towers, LLC invitescomments from any interestedparty on the impact the proposedtelecommunications structuremay have on any districts, sites,buildings, structures or objectssignificant in American history,archaeology, engineering orculture that are listed ordetermined eligible for listing inthe National Register of HistoricPlaces. Comments may be sentto Environmental Corporation ofAmerica, ATTN: Dina Bazzill,1375 Union Hill Industrial Court,Suite A, Alpharetta, Georgia30004. Ms. Bazzill can bereached at (770) 667-2040 ext.111. Comments must bereceived within 30 days. In addition, any interested partymay also request furtherenvironmental review of theproposed action by notifying theFCC of the specific reasons thatthe action may have a significantimpact on the quality of thehuman environment pursuant to47 CFR Section 1.1307. Thisrequest must only raiseenvironmental concerns and canbe filed online using the FCCpleadings system or mailed toFCC Requests for EnvironmentalReview, Attn: Ramon Williams,445 12th Street SW, Washington,DC 20554 within 30 days of thedate that this notice is published.Instruction for filing an onlineRequest for EnvironmentalReview can be found atwww.fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest. Refer to File No.A0971858 when submitting therequest and to view the specificinformation about the proposedaction. 05/27/15 #168391
PUBLIC NOTICE
The recommended MaconCounty Budget for Fiscal Year2015-2016 was submitted to theMacon County Board ofCommissioners on May 21, 2015,and a copy is now available forpublic inspection at thereceptionist desk at the MaconCounty Courthouse AnnexBuilding in Franklin, N.C. Copieswill also be on file at the HudsonLibrary in Highlands, the MaconCounty Public Library in Franklinand the Nantahala Library at 128Nantahala School Road. Therecommended budget, along withthe county managers budgetmessage, can be accessed onthe Countys web site atwww.maconnc.org.
The Board of Commissionerswill hold a public hearing on therecommended budget on June 9,2015, at 6 p.m. in theCommission Boardroom on thethird floor of the Macon CountyCourthouse, 5 West Main Street,Franklin, NC.
Derek C. Roland, CountyManagerEx Officio Clerk to the Board05/27/2015
