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cling Unit, Wednesdays, Fire Department in Green Creek, 7 a.m. - noon.

The Meeting Place Senior Center Wednesday activities include Tai Chi, 9 a.m.; ce-ramics, 9:30 a.m.; Italian club meeting (Buon Giorno), 10 a.m.; senior fitness, 10 a.m.; bingo or bridge, 12:30 p.m.; medication assistance program, 9 a.m. - noon. 828-894-0001.

Saluda Center Wednes-day activities, Trash Train, dominoes game, 10 a.m.; gentle Yin Yoga 12:30 p.m. 828-749-

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History notesOn Feb. 1, 1881, the City of

Saluda was incorporated. On the same date in 1944,

the first women served on a Polk County jury.



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Saluda’s birthday celebration committee honoredAt its January meeting, the

Historic Saluda Committee (HSC) recognized Saluda’s 130th Birthday Celebration Committee for its work during 2011 to help celebrate the town’s birthday.

Events were held all year long

in celebration of the town’s birth-day, including but not limited to a historical church tour, nature walks, a celebration auction, an old timey square dance, a town potluck dinner with birthday cake, a bus tour of Saluda’s Inns,

an antique car show, a “Visions of Saluda” art show and the first Saluda Christmas parade. The committee also assisted with other events traditionally held

Left to right: Members of the Historic Saluda Committee (HSC) recognized the 130th Birthday Celebration Committee for its work in 2011 to celebrate the town’s birthday. Left to right: HSC members Jack Coates and Lynn Cass, birthday committee members Charlene Pace, Greaton Sellers and Caroline Farris and HSC member Cindy Tuttle. (photo submitted by Lynn Cass)

Polk could pay off senior center loanMove could mean $291k savingsby Leah Justice

Polk County commissioners are considering paying off the county’s loan for the senior center construction, which could mean

a savings of $291,507 in interest.Commissioners discussed

paying off the loan during a budget retreat Jan. 23. The total payoff if the county were to pay off the loan on Dec. 28, 2012 would be $1,317,388.

The loan does have a pre-pay-

ment penalty. If the county pays off the loan in December 2012, the penalty would be $13,033. The earlier the loan is paid off, the higher the penalty.

Some commissioners dis-

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9245. Tryon Kiwanis Club meets

Wednesdays, noon, Congrega-tional Church, 210 Melrose Ave., Tryon.

Female Domestic Abuse Intervention Program, Wednes-days 3:30 – 4:30 p.m., Steps to HOPE. 894-2340.

Male Domestic Abuse Inter-vention Program, Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7 p.m., Steps to HOPE. 894-2340.

ThursdayPolk County Mobile Recy-

cling Unit, Thursdays, 7 a.m. - noon, old Searcy Mill parking lot, Hwy. 108, Columbus.

Creative Change film series will continue with “For the Love of It” Thursday, Feb. 2 at 9:30 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. at the Tryon Fire Department, 423 N. Trade St., Tryon. Pre-register at 828-894-2408 or [email protected]. Spon-sored by the newly reorganized wellness coalition now known as Polk Fit, Fresh and Friendly (PF3).

Saluda Center Thursday activities: knitting group, 9:30 a.m.; gentle Yin Yoga, 5:30 p.m.; 828-749-9245.

The Meeting Place Senior Center Thursday activities in-clude ceramics, 9:30 a.m. and bingo or movie, 12:30 p.m. 828-

894-0001. House of Flags Museum,

open Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 33 Gibson Street, Colum-bus.

Landrum Library, Lap Ba-bies, 10 a.m., 20- 25 minute session for young children and caregivers includes music, nurs-ery rhymes, action poems and short books. Storytime at 10:30 a.m. for preschoolers includes books, music and fingerplays. Call 828-457-2218.

Polk County Historical As-sociation Museum, open Thurs-days, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., 60 Walker St., Columbus, lower level. Free.

Saluda Community Library will have preschool story time every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Open to all area children and caregivers.

Green Creek Community Center, Zumba exercise class, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., in gym.

Polk County Republican Women’s Club will meet Thurs-day, Feb. 2 at 11:30 a.m. at Tryon Estates. Polk County Commissioner Tom Pack will be the guest speaker. All interested Republicans are welcome, but reservations are required. Call Eve Beaumont at 828-894-8696.

Polk County Public Library, free yoga class (bring your own mat) every Thursday from noon - 1 p.m.

Rotary Club of Tryon meets every Thursday at noon at Tryon Presbyterian Church on Harmon Field Rd.

Daffy-Jills Garden Club will meet Thursday, Feb. 2 at 1:30 p.m. John Vining will present a program on native plants of North Carolina. Members are asked to contact one of the hostesses, Esther Taylor or Elaine Riley, if you are unable to attend.

East Side Citizens Advisory Committee will meet Thursday, Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. at Roseland Community Center. For more information, contact Roy Miller at 828-859-2804.

Columbus Lions will meet Thursday, Feb. 2 at 6:30 p.m. at Calvert’s Kitchen in Columbus. Information: 828-894-2505.

Landrum Library, free legal clinic on wills, estates and pro-bate, Thursday, Feb. 2, at 6:30 p.m. Paul C. MacPhail, Esq. from the MacPhail Law Firm, LLC in Spartanburg will present a 30-45-minute lecture, followed by a question-and-answer ses-sion. Free and open to the public. 864-457-2218.

Tryon Fine Arts Center presents “Dynamic Rhythm and Sound” with River Guerguerian and John Vorus on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 6:30 p.m. Guerguerian’s drumming and Vorus’ didgeridoo blend in this event from TFAC’s Explore the Arts series. For more information, call 828-859-8322.

Al-Anon: Foothills Come to Believe, Thursdays, 7 p.m., Polk Wellness Center, 801 W. Mills St., Suite A, Columbus.

Green Creek Community Center, Zumba exercise class, Thursdays 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., in gym.

Mill Spring VFW Post 10349, bingo, Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. (year round). 828-894-5098.

Polk County Democratic Party Executive Committee will meet Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the Democratic Head-quarters in Columbus. Everyone welcome.

AA’s Sobriety and Beyond, Thursdays, 8-9 p.m., Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, 1024 W. Main St., Forest

City. 828-863-1313. Alcoholics Anonymous,

Thursdays, 8 p.m., CooperRiis, Mill Spring. 828-859-7099.

Alcoholics Anonymous, Thursdays, 8 p.m., Holy Cross Episcopal Church, 150 Melrose Ave., Tryon.

FridayWestern Highlands Area

Authority board of directors will meet Friday, Feb. 3 at 8:30 a.m. at Western Highlands Network, located at 356 Biltmore Ave., Asheville, N.C. For more infor-mation, call 828-225-2785.

Saluda Center Friday events: chair exercise, 9:30 a.m.; Trash Train, 10 a.m.

The Meeting Place Senior Center Friday activities include movie matinee at 10 a.m. and bin-go at 12:30 p.m. 828-894-0001.

Seniors on Sobriety (SOS) AA Meeting, Fridays at noon, Polk County Chamber of Com-merce Building, 2753 Lynn Rd. (Hwy. 108), Tryon. 828-894-0293.

Tryon Toy Makers Museum, open Friday 2 - 6 p.m., 43 E. Howard St., Tryon. 828-290-6600.

Please submit Curb Reporter items in writing at least two days prior to publication. Items must include a name and telephone number of a contact person. Items will be printed in order by date of event, as space allows.

Remember Someone Forever …by purchasing a brick or paver for the Path of Remembrance at Hospice House of the Carolina Foothills in Landrum, SC. For information on how to order, please contact the Development Office at 828.894.7000 or [email protected]. Information is also available on our website: www.hocf.org.

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Polk sheriff’s office makes five recent drug arrestsby Leah Justice

The Polk County Sheriff ’s Office has recently arrested five people for illegal drug activity in two separate searches.

The sheriff’s office executed a search warrant with the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office’s SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) Team on Jan. 17 in Mill Spring.

Robert Scott Blanton of 89 Julies Drive, Mill Spring was arrested and charged with three felony counts of selling a schedule VI controlled substance, one felony count of possession with intent to sell/deliver a controlled substance and one felony count of maintain-ing a dwelling to sell/deliver a controlled substance, according to sheriff reports.

Blanton received a $5,000 bond.On Jan. 28, the Polk County

Sheriff’s Office arrested four indi-viduals in the same home on drug charges.

Crystal Greenway Allison, 35, of 838 Scoggins Road, Ruth-

erfordton was arrested and charged with felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance; Wayman “Dale” Alli-son, 45, of 838 Scoggins Road, Rutherfordton was arrested and charged with felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance; Ricky Eugene Greenway, 44, of 5058 Hwy. 11, Chesnee, S.C. was arrested and charged with trafficking opium or heroin and felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance and Randy Voyde Scruggs, 43, of 110 Double Lane, Forest City was arrested and charged with simple possession of a schedule II controlled substance, according to sheriff reports.

Crystal Allison received a $20,000 bond, Wayman Allison received a $20,000 bond, Green-way received a $50,000 bond and Scruggs received a $500 bond, according to the sheriff’s office.

Schedule VI controlled sub-stances include marijuana, and schedule II con-trolled substanc-es include meth-amphetamines, cocaine, metha-done and opium.

Schedule I controlled substances are rated the highest classification for drugs and are considered class I felonies.

Schedule I drugs include heroin, LSD and ecstasy, according to state statutes.

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Ricky Greenway Randy Scruggs

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in Saluda such as the Charlie Ward Pig Out and the Saluda Arts Festival.

The HSC expressed par-ticular appreciation to the 130th Birthday Celebration Commit-tee for several opportunities that allowed the HSC to either partner or use the event to ac-complish goals of the HSC.

Examples of this included the film premiere for “Home, Hearth and History: Stories of Old Saluda,” which occurred in July in conjunction with the old timey square dance, and the historic church tour in March. A slide show, which includes pictures and the audio recorded during the two days of the church tour, can be viewed at www.historicsaluda.org, along with other Saluda special events.

Members of the 130th Birth-day Celebration Committee included Terry Baisden, Cath-erine Ross, Judy Ward, Greaton Sellers, Caroline Farris, Char-lene Pace, Linda Whitaker and Nora Parks Anderson.

The Historic Saluda Com-mittee was formed by a group of concerned citizens who wished to preserve the his-torical integrity of the town. The grassroots effort spawned interest from Saluda City of-ficials and in June 2010 the Saluda City Commissioners voted to make the committee an advisory committee to the city and committee members were appointed. Major projects of the committee include the oral history project and restoration of Saluda City Hall. For more information email [email protected].

– article submitted by Lynn Cass

cussed paying off the loan in April and using the savings to pay for employee salaries increases planned for next year.

Commissioner Tom Pack said the county needs to be careful and should hold off on paying off the loan in April.

Commissioner Renée Mc-Dermott said it seems like the thing to do is take it out of fund balance since the county’s not making any money on interest and to pay it off in April.

Polk County Finance Officer Sandra Hughes said the interest on the senior center loan is 3.9 percent and if commissioners want to pay off a loan this year the senior center loan makes the

most sense. Polk County purchased

the former Carolina Classical School property off Skyuka Road near Columbus to house its Meeting Place Senior Center. The county has also renovated another building on the prop-erty that houses an adult day care, operated by Rutherford Life Services.

The original loan was for $1.7 million. Debt service on the loan is approximately $161,000 per year, with those payments decreasing every year.

Commissioners directed county manager Ryan Whitson to research the numbers on what it would mean to pay off the loan in April and to update the board during its Feb. 6 meeting.

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Veterinarians host webinar on EHV-1 virus Feb. 2 at PC libraryby Samantha Hurst

Five veterinary offices will join together Thursday, Feb. 2 at the Polk County Public Library in Co-lumbus to host a webinar focused on EHV-1 in equine animals.

The webinar will feature a lecture from Dr. Tom Ray of the N.C. Dept. of Agriculture, as well as a question and answer session.

“An affected horse can be saved with supportive care. This can be a long and extensive treat-ment,” Dr. Rachel Butterworth-Tice of Rutherford Large Animal Clinic said in an email. “The sooner a horse is treated, the better the chance of survival.”

Butterworth-Tice said the dis-ease is an Equine Herpesvirus, usually associated with respiratory disease and in some cases late term abortion, neonatal foal death and neurological disease.

She added that it is important to note that the disease is conta-gious among equines but cannot be transmitted to other animals or humans.

Equines can catch the disease directly through horse-to-horse contact, contaminated hands, equipment or tack, and for a short time through aerosolization of the virus within the environment of the stall and stable. She said nei-ther mosquitoes nor flies spread it.

Butterworth-Tice recently sent out an email with answers to some of the basic questions horse own-ers might have about the disease. Some of those questions and an-swers have been included below:What are the signs of EHV-1?

The first symptom usually is a fever of 102°F or greater. Other presenting signs may be combi-nations of fever and respiratory symptoms of nasal discharge and cough. Some horses have reddish mucous membranes.

Affected horses that develop neurological disease develop signs 7-12 days after the initial fever. They typically become uncoor-dinated and have trouble walking and standing. Difficulty urinating

and defecating may also occur. Often the rear limbs are more severely affected than the front. Other advanced signs include extreme lethargy, abnormal func-tion of the eyes or face, difficulty swallowing, and a coma-like state.What can I do to prevent my horse from getting this disease?

There is no vaccination for the neurological form of EHV-1 but there are vaccinations available to protect horses from most other forms of EHV-1. I recommend keeping your horse’s vaccination current for EHV, as it can help prevent the respiratory form and might have cross protection for the neurological form, although this is not proven.

Reduce or eliminate your horse’s exposure to other horses, especially new or different horses.

Reduce or eliminate stressful situations such as moving, show-ing or breeding.

When showing or traveling always bring your own water buckets, hay nets and supplies. Do not share with other horses.

When spending time away from home, like at a show facility, do not pet, handle or otherwise touch other horses or their equipment before handling your own horse. Choose stalls that are furthest away from horse and people traffic.What do I do if I think that my horse is showing signs of disease?

Call your veterinarian im-mediately; again, early treatment increases the chances of survival.

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Decontaminate equipment and the environment with a solution of one part chlorine bleach to 10 parts water.

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Betty Ramsey, Publisher

Send your thoughts: Bulletin, 16 N. Trade St., Tryon, NC 28782 or by email to [email protected].

Editor Samantha HurstManaging Editor Barbara TillyGraphic Designer Gwen RingReporter Leah Justice

Loyal readers appreciated If you are one who pays close attention to details, you

might have noticed that yesterday’s issue marked the start of our 85th volume of the Tryon Daily Bulletin.

We want to take a moment here to let you the reader know how much we appreciate your loyalty over the years. It’s a great feeling to work at a paper that serves a community so passionate about its publication. It’s the highlight of our week to celebrate the opening of a new business, a national recogni-tion or even the completion of a classroom’s recent project.

We also feel privileged to serve as the eyes and ears of the community. The news that sometimes comes from sitting in on town meetings or putting in calls daily to the sheriff’s office aren’t always ones that sit well with us - drug busts, robberies or heated meetings - but they are important to the community’s well-being and therefore must be told. Our job is to keep you informed about the world right here in Our Area and we feel privileged to do so.

Thank you for what we hope will be a good year for reporting on our students, our businesses, our non-profit organizations and our community as a whole.

— Editorial staff, Tryon Daily Bulletin

Letters to the editor

Band teachers enrich students’ lives

To the Editor:I would like to express our

apprec ia t ion for Polk County’s pub-lic schools and in particular today for the excellent and in-spirational teaching of Cindy Gilbert and Jill Bennett.

The high school and middle school bands are wonderful opportunities for our children to learn the value of teamwork, perseverance and self-discipline. Cindy’s and Jill’s professional

ability and love for our children have given all the band kids skills and experiences they would otherwise be unlikely to achieve.

Our family is going to have the incredible experi-ence of seeing our daughter perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City, courtesy of the kind of quality

instruction that can take a child from no musical knowledge to a chance at first chair and a solo in a nationally recognized event.

Cindy and Jill do amazing work with our children.

- Lee Barker, Green Creek

Rejoice that people are drinking less

To the Editor:According to an

article in the Jan. 27 Tryon Bulletin, some people are concerned that the Columbus ABC store is not making enough profit.

I think we ought to be rejoicing that people are not spending their hard-earned money on beverage

alcohol rather than trying to figure out how to get people to buy more booze.

At a time when churches, charitable groups and other inter-ested parties are invest-ing time and money

responding to the many hunger and housing needs in Polk County, do we really need to encourage people to drink more?

– John Roberts, Tryon


Blues goneTo the Editor:If you were not fortunate enough

to have experienced the Tryon Fine Arts Center ’s “Chase Away the Blues” this past Saturday night, you missed out big time.

There was such a diversity of blues musicians with big city quality that anyone who attended will tell you it was one of the best events ever held there. Not only was the auditorium filled to capacity, the overflow crowd

enjoyed more music in the lobby between the group’s sets.

There was dancing in the aisles and such great music that it is important that those who missed this

fun event know about it, just in case we are lucky enough to enjoy it next year.

Kudos to Rebecca Barnes, president of the Tryon Fine Arts Center, and her team for securing such talent for all of us locals to share. Thank you for hosting this wonderful event and please bring it back again.

Still tapping my toes,– Martha Hall, Mill Spring


Comments on www.tryondailybulletin.com

Tryon Daily Bulletin on Jan. 31 published, “11-year-old Polk County girl abducted, found in local barn”

larryt700 replied:“CONVICT HIM FIRST,

then deport him so that when he comes back, he goes right back into jail!!! Do your community this one favor, otherwise he will

abduct again and the next time the victim will likely not live!.”

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wheels of justice move quickly. He’s got three hots and a cot until he’s found guilty. Probably a court-appointed lawyer as well. Adios, Javier.

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Letter to the editor

Racial Justice ActTo the Editor:As elected district attorney

since 1995 and past president of the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys, I offer the following truths into what has often been a debate full of half truths and untruths on the part of supporters of North Carolina’s 2009 “Racial Justice Act (RJA).”

North Carolina’s “RJA” di-rectly opposes the centuries-old concept that justice should be blind. North Carolina’s Death Penalty laws consider only the facts of each case; while North Carolina’s 2009 “RJA” con-siders race only and specifically prohibits examining the facts.

The “RJA” makes us the only state to require the court to accept statis-tical racial percentages to decide who gets the death penalty rather than a life sentence. This directly violates constitutional law laid out by the U.S. Supreme Court since the 1987 case McCleskey v. Kemp. The “RJA” was enacted in 2009 without any Republican votes, because it belies its cynical title, “The Racial Justice Act.” Many believe instead of racial justice this statute is designed to discontinue the death penalty (defacto) across the state without expressly articulating this goal. Some evidence to support this can be found in the fact that virtually all white convicted murderers on North Carolina’s death row have filed “RJA” petitions based on these statistical racial percent-ages.

Senate Bill 9 amends North Carolina’s “RJA” to bring us back into agreement with the other 49 states and the U.S. Supreme Court. The “RJA” wrongfully assumes North Carolina grand jurors, North Carolina judges; North Carolina district attorneys and assistant district attorneys; North Carolina trial juries; North Carolina law officers and appar-ently North Carolina citizens

in general are racially biased. Governor Perdue’s veto of Senate Bill 9 is in direct opposition to her constituents’ solid support of the death penalty in appropriate cases regardless of race.

Senate Bill 9 would require defendants now raising the issue of race in their respective capital cases to examine the facts of their particular cases rather than gen-eral statistical racial percentages of the type required under the RJA and disallowed by the U.S. Supreme Court since 1987.

In North Carolina any per-ceived statistical variances are due by law to the aggravating factors in each individual murder case (such as heinous, atrocious, or cruel). Indeed, when North Carolina’s death penalty murder

cases are compared according to the statu-tory aggravating fac-tors of each individual case, any perceived

differences in racial percent-ages between blacks and whites disappear.

Finally, if the current “RJA” continues to be North Carolina law in death penalty cases in which it is invoked, there ap-pears to be nothing which would prohibit defendants in non-capital criminal cases from attempting to prove “racial bias” in their respective cases with the same type of statistical racial percent-ages embraced by North Caro-lina’s “RJA,”and rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court since 1987, (McCleskey v. Kemp).

I urgently ask every mem-ber of the General Assembly, regardless of race or political party, to return the blindfold to North Carolina’s statue of Lady Justice by voting to override the governor’s veto of Senate Bill 9. Raw statistical racial percentages (some might say racial quotas) do not belong in our criminal court system, whether regarding death penalty analysis or any other criminal cases.

Let’s stay with the facts of each case and remain blind as to race.

– article submitted by Jeff Hunt



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Bravo Marketplace, 83 Palmer St., Tryon. Collection includes works by Diana Gurri, Linda Hudgins, Bob Neely, Jim Shackelford, Ford and Mara Smith and J.T. Cooper. Gallery open Mon. - Fri. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Ferullo Fine art Studio, 140 Pacolet St., Tryon. Cur-rently conducting an ongoing class in expressive water-color, the non-traditional approach, each Thursday from 2 - 4 p.m., with open studio from 4 – 5 p.m.

kathleen’S Gallery, 98 N. Trade St., Tryon. Gallery hours are Monday - Saturday 10 - 5 p.m. For more infor-mation, call 828-859-8316.

Skyuka Fine art, 133 North Trade St., Tryon, Saturday, Feb. 11 - Friday, March 23 “Showing Off Saluda,” featuring works by Saluda artists: Bonnie Bar-dos, Jim Carson, Marguerite Hankins, William and Anne Jameson, Dale McEntire, Beverly Pickard, Bill Ryan and John Waddill. Opening reception is Feb. 11 from - 8 p.m. For more information: [email protected] or 828-817-3783.

tryon artS & craFtS School, 373 Harmon Field Rd., Tryon. Now through Friday, March 2. Earthen Creations Show. Wood and pottery from regional artists.

tryon Fine artS center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon Thursday, Feb. 2 EXPLORE Dynamic Rhythm and Sound, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Open to the public. Call 828-859-8322.

tryon painterS & SculptorS, 26 Maple St., Tryon. New classes offered in introduction to drawing, sculp-ture, oil painting and figure drawing. Contact Christine Mariotti at [email protected] or 828-859-8392

Now through Saturday, Feb. 25 Works by Wm. Jameson and his students and pulp painter Stefanie Kompathoum and her students. Works from Francesco Lombardo’s workshop will be shown as well. Opening reception on Saturday, Jan. 28 from 5-8 p.m.

Upstairs artspace, 49 South Trade St., Tryon. The gallery presents new exhibits, “The Fine Art Ramblers” and “The Innovative Camera,” through March 16. “Ramblers” features six well-known Greenville artists in a colorful display of painting, monotype, mixed media, installation and decorative stoneware. “Camera” presents four fine art photographers whose work challenges and broadens expectations of the medium. On Friday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., photographer Colby Caldwell delivers a PowerPoint talk, “Framing Lazarus,” about emotional relationships between artist and subject. New gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 to 6 p.m., Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m. Contact: 828-859-2828 or visit www.upstairsartspace.org.

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Sun. Feb. 5Larkin’s Grill Fred Whiskin

TueS. Feb. 7Zenzera Open Mic

Thur. Feb. 9Purple Onion Calico Moon

SaT. Feb. 11Purple Onion Lonesome Road BandThe Party Place & Event Center (formerly Saluda Mtn. Jamboree) Special Edition

Thu. Feb. 2Purple Onion Nikki TallyZenzera Jim Peterman QuartetTryon Fine Arts Center EXPLORE Dynamic Rhythm and Sound 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Fri. Feb. 3Purple Onion Fred WhiskinElmo’s KaraokeZenzera Undercover Blues

SaT. Feb. 4Elmo’s Mikey & Steve & FriendsPurple Onion Taylor Moore Band

Live Music

Music VenuesEl Chile Rojo - 209 E. Rutherford St., Landrum, 864-457-5977Elmo’s - Trade Street, Tryon, 828-859-9615.Larkin’s - 155 W. Mills St., Columbus, 828-894-8800.Melrose Inn - 55 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-0234.Purple Onion - 16 Main St., Saluda, 828-749-1179.Saluda Mountain Jamboree - Friendship Rd., Saluda, 828-749-3676. Tryon Fine Arts Center - 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322.Ultimate Basement – 5965 N.C. 9 North, Mill Springs. 828-989-9374.Wine Cellar - 229 Greenville St., Saluda, 828-749-9698.Zenzera - 208 E. Rutherford St., Landrum, 864-457-4554.

Moviestryon theatre, 45 S. Trade St., Tryon.

Feb. 1 - 5 Sherlock Holmes Feb. 8 - 12 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Feb. 13 - 14 My Week with Marilyn Feb. 15 - 19 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

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cluding any improve-ments thereon) which ismore particularly de-scribed on Exhibit A at-tached hereto and incor-porated herein by refer-ence. This sale shall notinclude any portion of thereal property that hasbeen released by re-corded releases or anyreal property described inthe Deed of Trust whichis not listed and includedon Exhibit A attachedhereto.

The sale will be subjectto any and all superiormortgages, deeds of trustand liens, including with-out limitation, the lien ofunpaid taxes and assess-ments, easements, condi-tions, restrictions andmatters of record. Thissale will be further sub-ject to the right, if any, ofthe United States ofAmerica to redeem theabove-described propertyfor a period of 120 daysfollowing confirmation ofthe sale. The real prop-erty may be sold in sepa-rate parcels, all togetheror in any manner theSubstitute Trustee deter-mines is appropriate.

The above-describedreal property will be sold“AS IS, WHERE IS.” Nei-ther the Substitute Trus-tee nor the holder of thenote secured by the deedof trust being foreclosednor the officers, directors,attorneys, employees,agents or authorized rep-resentatives of either theSubstitute Trustee or theholder of the Note makeany representation orwarranty relating to the ti-tle or any physical, envi-ronmental, health orsafety conditions existingin, on, at or relating to,the real property beingsold, and any and all re-sponsibilities or liabilitiesarising out of or in anyway relating to any suchconditions expressly aredisclaimed.

The record owner of theabove-described realproperty as reflected onthe records of the Polk

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County Register of Deedsnot more than ten (10)days prior to the postingof this notice is Cray, Inc.

Pursuant to N.C.G.S.§45-21.10(b), any suc-cessful bidder may be re-quired to deposit with theSubstitute Trustee imme-diately upon conclusionof the sale a cash depositof the greater of five per-cent (5%) of the last bidor $750.00. Any success-ful bidder shall be re-quired to tender the fullbalance purchase priceso bid in cash or certifiedcheck at the time theSubstitute Trustee ten-ders to him a deed for theproperty or attempts totender such deed, andshould said successfulbidder fail to pay the fullbalance purchase priceso bid at that time, heshall remain liable on hisbid as provided for inN.C.G.S. §45-21.30(d)and (e). The owner andholder of the indebted-ness secured by theDeed of Trust may makea credit bid.

This sale will be heldopen ten (10) days forupset bids as required bylaw.

If the real property to besold pursuant to this no-tice of sale is residentialproperty with less than fif-teen rental units then: (i)an order for possessionof the property may be is-sued pursuant toN.C.G.S. §45-21.29 in fa-vor of the purchaser andagainst the party or par-ties in possession by theclerk of superior court ofthe county in which thereal property is sold; and(ii) any person who occu-pies the real property pur-suant to a rental agree-ment entered into or re-newed on or after Octo-ber 1, 2007, may, afterreceiving this notice ofsale, terminate the rentalagreement upon ten (10)days' written notice to thelandlord, and upon termi-nation of the rental agree-ment, the tenant is liablefor rent due under the

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rental agreement pro-rated to the effective dateof the termination.

This the 4th day of Janu-ary, 2012.

J. Christian StevensonSubstitute TrusteeKirk Palmer & Thigpen,

P.A.1300 Baxter Street,

Suite 300Charlotte, NC 28204Telephone:

704.332.8000Facsimile:

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EXHIBIT A

Legal Description

TRACT I:

BEGINNING at a point inthe northwestern marginof Trade Street, at thewesternmost corner ofthe brick store building ofJohn L. Jackson, formerlyof John Orr, thence withsaid margin of said streetNorth 51 degrees Westt w e n t y - e i g h t a n dseven-tenths (28.7) feetto the southernmost cor-ner of E. E. Missildine'sbrick store building;thence North on the lineof the wall of said Mis-sildine's brick buildingNorth 39 degrees Eastsixty-one and thirty-eighthundredths (61.38) feet;thence South 51 degreesEast twenty-eight andseven tenths (28.7) feetto the wall of John L.Jackson's brick storebuilding; thence with saidwall of said buildingSouth 39 degrees Westsixty-one and thirty-eighthundredths (61.38) feetto the place of BEGIN-NING, this being theidentical property con-veyed to W. J. Gaines byGeorge A. Smith andFrances S. Smith, hiswife, by their deed datedthe 12th day of February1907, which is recordedin the office of the Regis-ter of Deeds for PolkCounty in Book 23, atPage 123.

TRACT II:

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BEGINNING at a point inthe Southeastern marginof Oak Street in the Townof Tryon, said point beingthe terminus of the firstcall in the description ofthe land described in andconveyed by a certaindeed from Isabel GroveMissildine and others toAgnes D. Bacon datedOctober 5, 1966, re-corded in Book 139,Page 147, Polk CountyRegistry, and runningthence from said begin-ning point and with theline of the Bacon propertytwo calls as follows:South 51 degrees East28.95 feet, and South 39degrees West 16.1 feet toa corner of the propertyacquired by Tryon Fed-eral Savings & Loan As-sociation by deed re-corded in Book 90, Page246, Polk County Regis-try; thence with said As-sociation's line South 51degrees East 28.95 feetto a point at the edge ofthe wall of the store build-ing belonging to Archie L.Covington and Leona P.Covington; thence North39 degrees East (cross-ing an alley or driveway)40 feet to an iron pin inthe property line of theland belonging to LucindaL. Ballenger; thence withthe Ballenger propertyline North 50 degreesWest 57.7 feet to an ironpin in the Southeasternmargin of Oak Street;thence with the margin ofOak Street South 39 de-grees West 25.5 feet tothe BEGINNING, contain-ing 0.04ths of an acre.

The above metes andbounds description wastaken from a plat entitled,“Property Conveyance toTryon Federal Savings &Loan Association, Tryon,Polk County, North Caro-lina,” made by H. B.Frankenfield, Jr., ForestEngr. And Surveyor,dated October 6, 1967,bearing No. 1700.

The above describedproperty is conveyed sub-ject to the right of way foran alley or access drive-way across the property

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hereinabove described,as the same appears ofrecord in the Office of theRegister of Deeds forPolk County.

TRACT III:

Fronting on Trade Streetbetween the lot of TryonFederal Savings & LoanAssociation and that of H.L. Arledge and wife, andBEGINNING at the south-ernmost point of theTryon Federal Savings &Loan Association lot, thesame being the corner;thence with the line of thesame North 39 degreesEast 60 feet to a point inthe line of the SecondTract hereinafter de-scribed; thence with itSouth 51 degrees East35 feet to the line of theH. L. Arledge lot; thenceSouth 39 degrees West60 feet to Trade Street;thence with Trade StreetNorth 51 degrees West35 feet to the BEGIN-NING.

TRACT IV:

BEGINNING at thenorthernmost corner ofGeorge A. Smith's (nowMissildine's) lot, said lotbeing situated on the cor-ner of Trade Street andOak Street and the south-east side of said OakStreet, said place of be-ginning being in thesoutheastern boundaryline of Oak Street; thencein the Northeasternboundary line of the saidGeorge A. Smith (nowMissildine) lot South 47degrees 54 minutes East53 feet to the northern-most corner of John Orr(now Jackson-Langley)lot; thence the samecourse and in northeast-ern boundary line ofMaria Dowe's (now Jack-son-Langley) line 35.2feet to the southeasternboundary line and corner,the same being the north-ernmost corner of T. T.B a l l e n g e r ' s ( n o wArledge's) lot; thence inthe line of John Orr (nowJackson-Langley) easternboundary line prolongedNorth 43 degrees 21 min-

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utes East 39.17 feet to apoint in Mariah E. Peck's(now Ballenger's) south-western boundary line;thence and in saidboundary line North 45degrees 45 minutes West91.1 feet to the south-eastern boundary line ofOak Street; thence in lineof said street South 38degrees 50 minutes West41.5 feet to the BEGIN-NING, containing 3552square feet, more or less.Excepting lots describedand conveyed in twodeeds from John Orr andwife, Alice F. Orr, to E. E.Missildine dated Decem-ber 13, 1905, recorded inBook 24, Page 271, andAugust __, 1913, re-corded in Book 30, Page65, of the record of deedsfor Polk County, subjectto the same reservationscontained in deed byMariah Dowe to John Orrdated May 14, 1904, re-corded in Book 19, Page589, of the record ofdeeds for Polk County.

There is, however, ex-pressly excepted from theabove described propertythat certain parcel of landcontaining 0.04 of anacre heretofore conveyedto Tryon Federal Savingsand Loan Association bydeed recorded in Book143, Page 180, PolkCounty Registry.

The above describedproperty is the identicalproperty designated asTracts I, II, IV and V inthat certain deed fromSeehorse of Tryon, Inc.to Cray, Inc. datedAugust 4, 2005 and re-corded in Book 330,Page 1379, Polk CountyRegistry.

The above describedtracts are conveyed sub-ject to the restrictive andprotected covenant as setforth in that certain deedrecorded in Book 309,Page 976, Polk CountyRegistry, the same beingincorporated herein byreference as if fully setforth herein.

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Tax Map ReferenceNumber: T8-F8

Tryon Daily BulletinJan. 25 and Feb. 1, 2012

FC/CRAY INC.

LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICETO CREDITORS

Having qualified on the30th of December, 2011,as executor of the Estateof Dorothy Oakes McGill,deceased, late of PolkCounty, North Carolina,this is to notify all per-sons, firms and/or corpo-rations having claimsagainst the decedent toexhibit the same to theundersigned executor onor before the 18th day ofApril, 2012, or this noticewill be pleaded in bar oftheir recovery. All per-sons, firms and/or corpo-rations indebted to theEstate should make im-mediate payment to theundersigned executor.This 18th day of Janu-

ary, 2012

James A. McGill421 College Park DriveL y n c h b u r g , V A

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A long time ago a beautiful re-sponse was written to a young girl named Virginia when she asked “is there really a Santa Claus?”

I w i s h t o thank al l my readers for the wonderful, positive response I’ve received for my tale, “The Colaborator.” Many thought that he was real and wished to know about his welfare. Others thought there was a specific dog and family that inspired the tale. Well, I’m here to express that you all were correct in your assump-tions. Yes, dear readers, there is a Cola.

When you hear of a family breaking up and no one will take the dog, he is Cola. When a family decides to move and the dog is left

behind, he is Cola.When a family member passes

away and their dog is not wanted, he is Cola. All the abandons, the strays, the sick who cannot or will not be cared for because of finan-cial reasons, all are Cola.

At Christmas time when you witness a bell ringer wearing a Santa suit, he is not Santa but he

represents the meaning of Christ-mas and the gift of giving just as Santa does.

When you visit a shelter or a rescue and look upon the confused and hopeful faces of these mag-nificent animals, in them beats the heart of Cola.

Cola was not made up, he most certainly exists, I know because I see him each and every day.

My fervent prayer is that I can make enough people believe in him that there will be fewer of him and more of us.

Yes, there is a Santa Claus

Elliott presentation at Walnut Creek Preserve draws crowdOn Saturday, Jan. 28, ap-

proximately 80 people filled the Anne Elizabeth Surratt Nature Center at Walnut Creek Preserve, where noted natural-ist, storyteller and musician Doug Elliott treated them to a presentation called “Woodslore and Wildwoods Wisdom.” The program was part of a collabo-ration between Babs and Bob Strickland of Walnut Creek and the Pacolet Area Conservancy (PAC).

The aud ience l i s tened , laughed and sang on cue, learn-ing about nature in an enjoyable way.

Why do farmers hate crows? Why did Native Americans call the vulture the “peace eagle”? Why don’t you want to get too close to one? What’s the real story on groundhogs and their day? Elliott enlightened everyone on these topics and many more. Afterwards he led a short walk on a nearby trail.

Babs Strickland, Doug Elliott and PAC Land Protection Specialist Pam Torlina at the Anne Elizabeth Surratt Nature Center at Walnut Creek Preserve, where Elliott gave a presentation on “Woodslore and Wildwoods Wisdom” on Jan. 28. (photo by Bob Strickland)

For more information about Elliott, visit www.dougelliott.com. For information on up-

coming programs at Walnut Creek, visit www.pacolet.org. Programs are presented to the

public free of charge.- article submitted

by Carole Bartol

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Leonard Rizzo

Lanier Library’s Brown Bag Lunch group, which meets on the third Tuesday of each month, recently welcomed two of Tryon’s artists and gallery owners: Richard and Kimberly Nelson.

The Nelsons described their adventure in finding Tryon to be both a home and a business place. They moved here in 2004 with their three children, and opened Skyuka Fine Art in January 2011.

The couple hails from Detroit. Richard graduated from the Col-lege for Creative Studies in 1988 with a B.F.A. Prior to finding his way into painting portraits and landscapes, he was in the Detroit music scene as an accomplished rock musician. He has kept his musical roots alive by being a member of the North Carolina band Wishgrove.

Since graduation, Richard has painted more than 1,000 portraits, mostly commissioned. Richard has been recognized for his portrait work and has earned numerous national prestigious awards over the years. This January he won first place in the Portrait Society of America’s ‘Member Only’ Competition for Commissioned Portraits. The winning painting was of a young girl, Charlotte. Her family traveled from Baltimore to Tryon so she could sit for two days to be painted.

Richard said his works are probably best described as having an Impressionist bent, but with enough realism to bring them to life. He calls this “painterly real-ism,” which allows the subject to be seen as art but also allows the viewer to get to know the person.

The Nelsons said they had a desire to be part of the community. They said they are interested not only in providing high quality portraits, landscapes and still-lifes but in broadening the artist’s expe-rience for all. Through events from workshops to Gallery Trots, they have been instrumental in provid-ing various venues for people to express and acquaint themselves with a variety of artists, styles and hands-on learning.

The next Tryon Gallery Trot

will be March 24 from 5-8 p.m. Nine galleries will be participating, and the event will end at The Pine Crest Inn. Visit Skyuka Fine Art at

133 N. Trade St. or skyukafineart.com/ for more information.

Information about Lanier Li-brary’s future Brown Bag events

can be found at www.lanierlib.org/.

- article submittedby Ron Pankey

Nelsons speak at Lanier Library’s Brown Bag Lunch group

Artist and gallery owner Rich Nelson speaks to the audience at the recent Lanier Library Brown Bag Lunch event. (photo submitted by Ron Pankey)



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Joseph John Hamlin III, 69, of Mill Spring, passed away Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. Joe was born in Rutherfordton, N.C., on Oct. 7, 1942, to Lucille Burgess Hamlin and the late Joseph John Hamlin Jr.

Joe grew up in Rutherford County on his family’s dairy farm, Willow Run. He was a 1961 graduate of Rutherfordton High School, where he served as student body president, and attended UNC-Chapel Hill. Af-ter 10 years in the family dairy business, Joe moved his fam-ily to Alaska, where he was the manager of drilling operations for ExxonMobil on the North Slope of the Alaska Pipeline. In 1987, Joe returned to his beloved property at Hawk Circle in Mill Spring. He was an owner, with his wife Krysti, of Carolina World Travel in Tryon. Later he founded Green River Cabins in Campobello, and ran its day-to-day operations until the company was sold in 2006.

Following retirement in 2006, Joe devoted his time to Hawk

Obituaries Circle, his mountain farm, and to friends and family. A lifelong hunter and fisherman who loved the great outdoors, Joe enjoyed farming, nature photography and observing mountain wild-life. He cherished the land and had an artist’s eye for enhancing its natural beauty. He pursued many creative building projects and enjoyed making rustic furni-ture. Joe followed his adventur-ous spirit, leading a big game tour to Africa in 1990, attaining his pilot’s license for small aircraft and, recently, enjoying S.C. shark fishing.

Quick witted and an excellent raconteur, Joe’s storytelling skills and poetry recitations were the highlight of many gatherings. He will be fondly remembered for his love of old-time music and for his performance as Hector Na-tions in the Tryon Little Theater production of “Foxfire.”

Joe is survived by his wife, Kristina R. Hamlin; his chil-dren, Joseph John Hamlin IV of Raleigh, son of Jo Anne Knott Whitt; Josh Hamlin (Stephanie) of Gastonia, N.C. and Janine Hamlin of Raleigh, son and daughter of Jane Simmons; his grandchildren, Peyton and Coo-per Hamlin of Gastonia; his

Eric GassMemorial services for Eric

Gass, who died on Dec. 10, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 in the Congregational Church of Christ, Tryon, with Rev. Bob Barrows officiating.

Memorials may be made to United Church of Christ Wider Church Ministries, c/o Tryon Congregational Church, 20 Mel-rose Ave., Tryon, N.C. 28782; Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, 130 Forest Glen Drive, Columbus, N.C. 28722 or to a nonprofit of your choice.

An on-line guest register may be signed at www.mcfarlandfu-neralchapel.com.

McFarland Funeral Chapel, Tryon.

Obituaries

mother, Lucille B. Hamlin of Rutherfordton, N.C.; his sister, Merrill Carayol of Littleton, Colo.; his brother, Newt Hamlin (Susan) of Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea; his nieces, Miriam Juzyk (Buck) of Aurora, Neb. and Allyson Sudborough of Denver, Colo., and his nephew, Nate Hamlin of Bennettsville, S.C. Also surviving are Paul and Jane Ray of Arden, N.C. and special friends Joel O’Quinn and Nicole Holt of Ridgeland, S.C.

Joe was a loving husband and father, a proud grandfather, a dutiful son, a wonderful brother and a great friend. Joe’s Hawk Circle property is home to many animals, including the deer and Canada Geese he so loved to feed. The loss of Joe is felt by all his human and animal friends.

A memorial service will be held at First United Methodist Church, 264 Main Street, Ruth-erfordton, on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 3 p.m. A visitation will be held from 2-3 p.m. in the fellowship

hall. Memorial contributions may be made to: The Pacolet Area Conservancy, 850 North Trade Street, Tryon, N.C. 28782.

Verlie Murphy of Saluda has signed with the artist manage-ment agency, World Artists Corporation (WAC). WAC will provide art management, pub-lishing, marketing, promotion and other services for her work worldwide.

After an initial review, Mur-phy was chosen from a large group of artists who responded to an open call for artists to join the WAC organization.

“Verlie Murphy’s detailed work with encaustics is amaz-ing and we look forward to showcasing her ar t to the world,” said WAC Partner and Marketing Director Peter K.

Yanke. After being invited to join

WAC, Murphy said, “I am so appreciative for being accepted. Surrounded by artists who have both inspired my work and enriched my life – What could be better?”

World Artists Corporation is a full-service publishing house, catering to both new and estab-lished artists, writers and other creative persons worldwide.

For more information, con-tact [email protected] or visit www.WorldArtistsCorp.com.

– article submittedby Peter K. Yanke

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The Heritage Museum will host a lecture and book signing by award-winning author and Henderson County native Rob-ert Morgan, with his new book, “Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expan-sion.” The book covers Thomas Jefferson and nine other Ameri-cans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries.

Morgan is the author of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, most notably his novel “Gap Creek” and his biography of Daniel Boone, both of which were national best sellers.

The lecture will take place in the courtroom of the Henderson County Courthouse, followed by the book signing and a “sam-pling of mountain cooking” in the Carolina 1st Community Room.

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Robert Morgan will speak and sign copies of his new book, “Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion,” on Feb. 11 at the Henderson County Courthouse. (photo submitted by Karen Baker)

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Amanda Hovis recently presented an update to the Rotary Club of Tryon on the Polk Wellness Center, which was started about five years ago. Hovis, the center’s physician assistant, explained to the Rotarians the various activities of the organization in providing comprehensive health and wellness services and following her presentation conducted a question and answer session. She was assisted by Angela Burrell, also of the center. Polk Wellness Center is a nonprofit organization and provides its services to Polk County and the surrounding area. Pictured are Angela Burrell and Amanda Hovis of Polk Wellness Center along with Gorden Threlfall, president of the Rotary Club of Tryon. (photo submitted by Bill Hillhouse)

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Tryon Painters and Sculptors (TPS) offers two figure-drawing sessions each week at the new TPS location, 26 Maple Street in downtown Tryon: Thursday nights from 7 to 10 p.m. and Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon.

Members of TPS pay $10 a session; non-members and guests pay $15. What you get for your “tuition” is an opportunity to draw a model, usually nude, in the company of other artists, from be-ginners to professional. Whether their primary artistic interest is still life, plein aire, figurative, abstract or sculpture, these artists believe continued practice draw-ing the human figure will result in better art.

“The process trains the eye/hand to see form, spatial relation-ships, proportion, contours, tonal values of light to dark and color and textures of skin and hair,” said Pauline Ross of TPS. “Some

liken the experience of drawing the body on a regular basis to a musician doing scales and chords to facilitate their virtuosity dur-ing everyday practice or to warm up before a concert. Many in our figure drawing studios have marveled at the improvement in the speed and accuracy they have developed i n d r a w i n g . Things that used to be difficult are becoming second nature to them now.”

Drawing the clothed figure is made so much easier when you know what is go-ing on under the fabric, Ross said, just as drawing the undraped fig-ure is made simpler if one has an idea of what is going on under the skin. The studio has an articulated

human skeleton that is used for reference. Muscle and other tissue covering the bones of a model are accentuated in the way the model is lit. These forms change with the model’s movement and challenge the artists’ ability to depict what

he/she sees ac-curately.

Each session starts with draw-ing “gesture poses.” They number about 10, are varied from standing, seated, kneel-ing or reclining poses, but the challenge is that they range from

one or two minutes each. The idea is to get the feel or movement of the body with no time to work out detail.

“Most of these poses would be too difficult for a model to hold for

any longer than the two minutes,” Ross said. “These are designed to ‘warm-up’ the artist for the longer poses that follow. Being a demo-cratic atmosphere we decide if we want to spend the rest of the time on a series of shorter poses of 20 minutes to an hour or whether we spend the entire time on one pose. Should the class opt for one pose, those who prefer shorter poses can move about the room and draw from different angles.”

TPS invites all those interested to join. The studio is not large and space is at a premium, so it would be best to make sure there is room for you. Check with Mike McCarthy for the Thursday night session at 828-859-9963 or Dick Neff for the Saturday morning session at 864-915-3144.

If you are interested in model-ing, call Dick Neff at the number above.

– article submittedby Pauline Ross

Tryon Painters and Sculptors: figure drawing studio two days a week

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William Ray Horne

William Ray Horne, 90, of Columbus died July 12, 2011. He was son of the late Jessie Monroe and Cora Collins Horne and hus-band of Mildred Holbert Horne.

He was a member of Mill Creek Church of the Brethren and Mill S p r i n g Ve t e r a n s Lodge. He served in

the U.S. Army as Medic during WWII.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Bill Horne of Green Creek; four daughters, Juanita Odel of Sunny View, Marilyn Horne and Regina Pate, both of Green Creek. and Laura Saenger of Hickory, N.C.; four sisters, Geneva Harrell of Bak-ersville, N.C., Imogene Burns of Inman, S.C., Janice Fagan of Green Creek and Linda Horne of McAdenville, N.C.; 10 grand-children, Kim Odel, Kelly Brad-ley, Lee Bradley, Brandon Horne, Ashley Horne, Rebecca Horne, Joseph Pate, Jacob Pate, Miles Saenger and Will Saenger; and five great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Friday, July 15 at Mill Creek Church of the Brethren Fellow-ship Hall. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. in the church sanctuary, conducted by Rev. Steven Abe. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Memorials may be made in memory of Brandon Horne to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 4530 Park Rd, #240, Charlotte, N.C. 28209.

Condolences may be left at www.pettyfuneralhome.com.

Petty Funeral Home& Crema-tory, Landrum.

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John Hanley GibbsJohn Hanley Gibbs, 87, of

Columbus died Thursday, July 14, 2011 in Autumn Care Nursing Center, Forest City, N.C.

Born in Polk County, he was the son of the late Callaway Bur-gin and Florence Jackson Gibbs. He was a veteran of WWII, hav-

ing served in the U.S. Army, a member of the VFW Post 10349 and the Woodmen of

the World. Mr. Gibbs was the husband of Omie Lee Laughter Gibbs, who died in 1986.

Survivors include one daugh-ter, Patsy Gibbs Toney (Dean) of Rutherfordton, N.C.; son, Harold Gibbs of Rutherfordton, N.C.; one sister, Alvah Gibbs of Columbus; and a brother , Herbert Gibbs of Mill Spring. Also surviving are five grandchil-dren, Randy Toney (Kimberly), Marc Toney (LeeAnn), Lora Brock (Jeff), Jeffrey Gibbs (Col-leen) and Elizabeth Gibbs and six great-grandchildren, Mason Toney, Kevin Gibbs, Anthony Brock, Bryan Gibbs, Nick Gibbs and Zane Gibbs.

Funeral services were held Sunday, July 16, in the McFar-land Funeral Chapel, Tryon.

Burial was in Polk Memo-rial Gardens, Columbus, with military rites by the Polk County Memorial Burial Squad.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, P. O. Box 336, Forest City, N.C. 28043 or Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, 130 Forest Glen Dr, Columbus, N.C. 28722.

The family will be at the home of his daughter, Patsy Gibbs Toney, 400 Radar Rd., Ruther-fordton, N.C.

An online guest register may be signed at www.mcfarlandfu-neralchapel.com.

McFarland Funeral Chapel, Tryon.

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Dorothy Waymon Simmons

Rev. Dorothy Waymon Sim-mons, 82, formerly of Tryon, died June 13, 2011 in Atlanta, Ga.

Memorial service noon, July 30 at Columbia Senior Residenc-es at MLK Village, 125 Logan St. SE, Atlanta, Ga. 30312. Contact sister: 678-862-3800.

Survivors are three sons, Al-len (Rudy) Waymon of Syracuse, N.Y., Kenneth Simmons of Hous-ton, Texas, and Lovell Simmons (Andrea) of Lawrenceville, Ga.; one sister, Frances Fox of River-dale, Ga.; three brothers, John Ir-vin Waymon of Antelope, Calif., Carrol Waymon of San Diego, Calif., and Samuel Waymon of Nyack, N.Y.; a host of grandchil-dren, great-grandchildren, other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by both parents, Mary Kate and John D. Waymon; son, Van Waymon; sisters, Lucile Waddell and Nina Simone (Eunice) and brother, Harold Waymon Sr.

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The Pacolet Area Conservancy (PAC) will offer five Friday hikes this spring, starting Feb. 17.

PAC’s first hike will head to Pe-ter’s Creek Heritage Trust Preserve for a 3.6-mile, easy to moderate hike on the preserve’s loop trail.

On March 2, hikers will head to Paris Mountain State Park for a 4-mile, moderate loop hike. On March 16, hikers venture to Chest-nut Ridge Heritage Preserve for a 5.5-mile moderate to strenuous, out-and-back hike to the South Pacolet River. On March 30, PAC offers a 5-mile, strenuous hike to Rainbow Falls in Jones Gap State Park, and on April 13 hikers are invited on a 6-mile, moderate to strenuous loop hike at the Green River Game Lands.

The final hike of the spring hik-ing series will be held on Saturday, April 21 at the PAC-protected Norman Wilder Forest. PAC Land Protection Specialist Pam Torlina will lead hikers on a 3.5-mile, moderate interpretive hike on the preserve, pointing out native flora and fauna of the season.

If you are interested in attend-

Rainbow Falls in Jones Gap State Park. (photo by Pam Torlina)

PAC kicks off spring hiking series Feb. 17

ing the PAC hikes this spring and would like more information, please contact the PAC office by phone at 828-859-5060 or by email at landprotection@pacolet.

org. You can also find information on PAC’s website, www.pacolet.org, and on PAC’s Facebook page.

– article submittedby Pam Torlina

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