Fairview Town Crier Jan 2014

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Once a month, theTown Crier appears inyour mailbox... free. Wehope you enjoy receiv-ing it. Volunteers put labels on papers goingto Gerton, Fletcher andReynolds. Can youspare one hour at 9:30 am, Friday, January 31 to help?We meet at the FairviewLibrary. Call Sandie at628-1422 for info.

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Happy New Year again!Out with the Snake, inwith the Horse!

On January 31, theChinese lunar calendar begins a new year with anew symbol in its twelve-year cycle of zodiac animals.Chinese New Year is a spring festival that begins onthe second new moon after the Winter Solstice.

Most of 2013 was a year of the Water Snake, usually considered a low-energy animal in the zodiaccycle.The Horse, on the other hand, is a heroic animal, strong, active, loyal and straightforward. The Horseyear is considered a time of good fortune and victories, adventure and romance.

So Happy Horse Year to all ... and dare we hope that the clear-eyed, determined and fortunate Horsewill replace the sly, sinuous sideways-sliding Snake in all the aspects of our lives — politics, for instance,and finance, and perhaps even our search for true love?

Absolutely, let’s dare. Let’s saddle up and do it. Let’s hope.

This little kitten was found on Sunday, December29 on Emma's Grove Road in Fairview. He is an or-ange tiger stripe. If you’re missing him, please callJanet at 215-1400.

This beagle was romping with a large brown furrydog who took off but he stayed behind. Found themorning of December 31 on Laurel Trail Drivenear Kirstein/Garren Creek Road. Call 628-1422.

FREE TAX ASSISTANCE AARP Foundation Tax-Aide, in cooperation with theIRS, NC Dept. of Revenue, Buncombe County LibrarySystem and Council on Aging, offers free tax prepara-tions for those with low- and moderate-income, espe-cially taxpayers age 60 and older. This service will beavailable from February 1 through April 15 at sites listedbelow. All tax returns will be electronically filed for safeand accurate preparation and faster refunds. Locations:Pack Library, 67 Haywood Street, Asheville, 250-4700Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 am–4 pmNote: Free first hour parking at the Civic Center Garage

West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road, 250-4750Tuesdays, 9 am–4 pmWeaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main Street, 250-6482Thursdays, 10 am–4 pm

Black Mountain Library, 105 N Dougherty St., 250-4756 Tuesdays, 10 am–4 pm

Taxpayers should bring the following documents:• Photo I.D. for taxpayer and spouse• Social Security cards or equivalent for all taxpayers and depend-ents.

• Previous year’s (2012) income tax return• W-2 forms from each employer• 1099 forms for income from Social Security, Pension, Interest,Dividends, Brokers/Mutual Funds, Miscellaneous Income, Gam-bling Winnings (Form W-2G) and any other income

• Detailed list and receipts for Medical Expenses, Charitable Con-tributions, Real Estate Taxes and Mortgage Interest (Form1098), if you are claiming itemized expenses

• Any other tax forms or information for both income and ex-penses

• A voided check for direct deposit of any refund to your checkingor savings account

Questions and requests for homebound individuals canbe directed to the Buncombe County Council on Aging,277-8288.

THE VOICE OF OUR COMMUNITY • FAIRVIEWTOWNCRIER.com • JANUARY 2014 • VOL. 19, No. 1 • FAIRVIEW, NC

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A Brief Note from the EditorAs the Town Crier enters its 19th year of publication, and my

11th year as Editor/Publisher, there is much to be proud of andgrateful for. We’ve had some ups and downs but have weath-ered the changes brought about by time, economics and ourgrowing community. We have maintained our expanded for-mat of 32 pages with full color. And we now mail free to almost8200 households in Fairview and our extended delivery area ofReynolds, Gerton and a good portion of Fletcher.

The Criercontinues to rustle up a great group of fans and vol-unteers who help label, write columns, take photos and keep usinformed of happenings in the community. Our staff (LynnStanley, Janet Pruitt, Anne Ogg, Odell Suber) cheerfully digs inmonth after month to “get er done” no matter what pitfalls (orhiccups, as I like to call them) befall us. And most importantly,you, our readers, still drop a line or send emails letting us knowyou really enjoy, and count on, this paper to keep you informed,and you support our fundraising efforts so we can remain a non-profit with reduced mailing costs. So, what next?

Well, the Town Crier will soon have an office. . . a small spacejust large enough to serve our needs which happen to be to serveyour needs. We will be sandwiched between Elena the Groomerand The Electric Guitar Shop at 1185F Charlotte Highway inFairview. Our little office will be open every afternoon, Monday toFriday, and when we are not in, there is a mail slot in the window.Not everyone has a computer so this will be handy to drop photos,news items, payments or donations. When the office is open, wehope to become a hub for community information with brochuresand business cards, and other handouts. We are very excited at ournext growth spurt and look forward to sharing more news nextmonth. Wishing you all a Healthy and Happy New Year!

— Sandie Rhodes

by Lynn Stanley

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AROUND & ABOUT ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Education is Focus of Ethical Society Meeting

“Fulfilling Dr. King’s DreamThrough Education” will be the sub-ject of the meeting of the Ethical Soci-ety of Asheville on Sunday, January 19,2–3:30 pm at the Friends MeetingHouse, 227 Edgewood Road in NorthAsheville (off Merriman Avenue nearUNCA). Two programs will be in-cluded in the panel presentation:“Read To Succeed” and the MacNoliaCox Spelling Bee sponsored by DeltaSigma Theta Sorority.

Marjorie Locke will discuss therange of after-school enrichment pro-grams offered by Delta House, high-lighting the spelling bee, which isnamed in honor of the first black childto become a finalist in the nationalspelling bee, in 1936.

Read To Succeed (R2S) will be pre-sented by three speakers: Isaac Coleman,focusing on the origin and founding ofthe program; Catherine Alter, discussingthe current program’s goals, objectivesand methods; and Pat Bastian, who willdescribe her experiences as an R2S tutor. A discussion period and informal con-versation will follow the presentation.All are welcome.

The Ethical Society of Asheville is ahumanist, educational, philosophical,non-theistic alternative to traditional re-ligions. For more information visitaeu.org or contact [email protected] or 828 687-7759.

Living Light Blessing at Fairview Library

A presentation of Living Light Bless-ings will be held on Saturday, January 18,2–4 pm at the Fairview Public Library.

Presenters Barry and Mary Nadler in-vite everyone to experience the powerfultransformational abilities of these ex-traordinary blessings.

The Living Light Blessings initiate anopening to the higher Soul, allowing theparticipant to become established inhigher consciousness. This powerfultransformation brings one to Unity withSoul Consciousness; Soul Unity Con-sciousness is Divine Truth, Divine Intel-ligence, Divine Love and Divine Wisdom.

Consciousness is shifted with thisDivine Metamorphosis, allowing thetrue self to emerge and become free tolive a life of joy, kindness, compassion,illumination and Mastery on all levels oflife. For more information please visitMaryandBarry.comor contact 828 338-0042.

Opportunity House, the Arts andCrafts Cultural Center in at 1411Asheville Highway, Hendersonville, isoffering these new and ongoing classes:Beginner’s Pistol Shooting Class—

a two-session course on Monday, Janu-ary 20, 6–9 pm at Opportunity Houseand Tuesday, January 21, 6–8 pm at Rex’sIndoor Range, 77 Upward Rd, East FlatRock. This class is the NRA First StepsPistol Orientation Class for beginnershooters. No prior experience needed.Cost is $60; guns and ammunition areavailable at an additional fee. Concealed Carry Handgun Class—

a two-session course on Monday, Janu-ary 6 and Tuesday, January 7, 6–10 pm atRex’s Indoor Range. Cost is $60 for mil-itary personnel and $80 for civilians.Jewelry Making Class — a six-week

course beginning Monday, January 6,6–8 pm. Cost is $60 members, $75 non-members. Call 692-0575 for supply list.Line Dancing— a four-session class

beginning Tuesday, January 7, beginnerclass 6:30–7 pm, high beginner/intermediate7:45–8:45 pm. Cost is $36 members, $40non-members. This class provides fun,socialization and exercise for all ages. Theline dancing is done to all types of music;country, pop, R&B, jazz and Latin. Partic-ipants are asked to wear flat leather orsoft-soled shoes or dance shoes. Pottery — an ongoing class meeting

Tuesdays from 6–9 pm, covering tech-niques including pinch pot, coil con-struction, throwing on the potter’swheel, glazing techniques and makinghandles for pottery pieces. Supplies forthe class are included; an extensive li-brary of resources and instructionalbooks are also available. Cost is $120members, $140 non-members for eightweeks of classes.

Opportunity House is a non-profitarts & crafts cultural center. For moreinformation please call 828 692-0575 orvisit opportunityhouse.org.

New Classes at Opportunity House in Hendersonville

Pet Vaccine Clinic Offered by BWARBrother Wolf Animal Rescue will hold a low-cost vaccine clinic on Saturday, Jan-

uary 11, 10 am–12 pm at the Tailgait Market, 328 New Leicester Highway inAsheville.

Shots offered include 1- and 3-year rabies vaccines at $10 each, DAPP combo fordogs at $15, Bordatella for dogs at $15, FVRCP/FELV combo vaccines for cats at $20and microchipping for dogs and cats at $15.

Owners must have written proof of a previous rabies vaccine to receive a 3-yearvaccine. Cats must be in carriers.

For more information visit bwar.org.

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.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. THE COMMUNITYSave the Date for FarmingBusiness Conference

Appalachian Sustainable AgricultureProject’s annual Business of FarmingConference returns in time for the 2014growing season, on Saturday, February22, 7:30 am–5:30 pm at Warren WilsonCollege in Swannanoa. The conferencefocuses on the business side of farming,with workshops slated for beginningfarmers and an advanced track offeredfor long-time growers.

To learn more about ASAP’s work,visit asapconnections.org or call 236-1282.

Dough Cooking Classes Dough, a chef-owned market/bakery

at 372 Merrimon Avenue in Asheville, of-fers a slew of cooking classes evenings at 6pm. Fees range from $30 to $65. A sam-pling for this month is: January 6th, Pasta;7th is Pizza; 9th is Desserts; 10th is Tapas,13th is knife skills; an Italian Dinner onthe 17th, and a Parent/Child cooking classon the 18th. For full schedule and detailsvisit doughasheville.com, call 575-9444 oremail [email protected].

Fairview Event CalenderWondering what to do in Fairview? Want to avoid planning conflicts withother events to maximize participation? Check-in with the Town Crier’s on-line event calendar at Fairviewtowncrier.com and see what’s going on. Tosubmit a public event for the calendar, email [email protected].

Fitness First Zumba & PilatesFitness First is a group of experienced

instructors who have taken up residenceon the second floor of 1334 CharlotteHighway in Fairview (entrance at back ofPrudential Building). Decide now to workoff those holiday calories! All classes areone hour unless otherwise noted. Pilatesis Monday and Wednesday at 4:30 pm.Balance & Strength is Wednesday at 8:30am (45 minute class). Zumba is Mondayat 5:30 pm, Tuesday at 8 am, Wednesdayat 5:30 pm and Friday at 4:30 pm. ZumbaToning is Thursday at 8 am.

Pilates classes can be purchased at adrop-in rate or multi-class discount.Other classes can be mixed and matchedby purchasing a group card (10 classesfor $45, 20 classes for $80, or $6 per drop-in). Call 708-7347 for info or get info atFacebook.com/fitnessfirstfairview.

Fairview Fire DepartmentAuxiliary Elects Officers

The Fairview Fire Department Auxil-iary will meet on Monday, January 6, 7pm at the main fire station.

The officers for 2014 will be in-stalled. They are as follows: President: Becky McIntosh, 628-3122Vice President: Jennie Buckner, 628-1105Treasurer: Maxine Harris, 628-2530Secretary: Susan Stills, 628-2407Chaplain: Charlene Lance, 628-9252Sergeant at Arms:Carmie McIntosh, 606-8747

For information or questions re-garding the auxiliary, please contact oneof the above officers.

Light Center January Classes and Programs

Everyone is invited to experiencethese varied offerings of the Light Cen-ter in January: January 11, 11 am— Singing Crystal

Bowls; 1 pm— Free Reiki Circle; 3:30 pm— toning for Peace and Healing.

The Center will be closed from Janu-ary 12–February 7 for repairs.

The Light Center is located at 2196Highway 9 in Black Mountain; for moreinformation call 669-6845 or visitURLight.org.

Weekly Community Lunch at The Welcome Table

Fairview’s Welcome Table, offeredevery Thursday from 11:30 am–1 pm,pro-vides a buffet of high quality, nutritiousfood, always with fresh vegetables, freshsalads and homemade desserts. Enjoythis lunch in the friendly company ofcommunity neighbors. Contributionsshould be given in the spirit of “thosewho can afford contribute for those whocannot pay, without distinction made foreither group.”

Stop by the community room of thelog cabin church behind the library onTaylor Street any Thursday at 11:30 am toenjoy a little delicious community. Visitwww.FairviewWelcomeTable.com.

Taste of Opera: A Feast for the Ear and the PalateAsheville Lyric Opera's 2014 Taste of Opera Winter Gala will present an opera

concert accompanied by Asheville's finest chefs offering a musical, wintery feast. Frankie Bones’ own Mark Sternal describes the exciting new event. “In Asheville's

foodtopian society, ALO is introducing a new format and experience. Borrowingfrom the Asian Dim Sum style dining, the area's finest local restaurant chefs willbring their cart tableside for an intimate, festive event.”

Another local favorite chef, Peter Pollay of Posana Cafe, is also looking forwardto participating in the new event style.

The Taste of Opera will take place Saturday, January 25, 6 pm at the Crowne PlazaResort in Asheville.

Tickets can be purchased online at ashevillelyric.org. For internal reservationsor questions concerning the event call the Opera office at 828 236-0670.

4 BR/2.5 BATH, 2,400 sf house in adeed-restricted neighborhood on 3.2mostly wooded acres at 40 Spring Hollow Lane off lovely HollywoodRoad in Fairview. The house, built in1987 by the current owner, includesan energy-saving geothermal heating/cooling system and 6˝exterior walls (R-19). The remodelled kitchen has Wood-Mode cabinets with granite counter tops. The living room and dining roomhave new hardwood floors, as does the family room plus a wood-burning fire-place. Unfinished basement w/ extra high ceiling could become a game room,gym or entertainment center. Oversized (35´ x 22´) 2-car garage with fullbasement is connected to the house by a covered breezeway. Landscapingfeatures 3 small koi ponds.

Brokers protected. Priced to sell at $375,000. Contact Erich Schmid,Owner/Broker at (828) 230-6393 to schedule appointment.


FOOD FOR THOUGHT ..................... by Cassia Imholz

This Year, Volunteer!

To contact us, email [email protected] call 628-4322 and leave a message.

Happy New Year! We hope you had awonderful holiday season and are look-ing forward to a wonderful year ahead.Perhaps you’ve made some resolutionsfor the New Year. If they include tryingsomething new, meeting new people, orgiving back to the community, have wegot the answer for you: how about vol-unteering for Food for Fairview?

Due to a recent increase in the num-ber of clients we serve, we have many op-portunities available. The hours areflexible; you can volunteer weekly,monthly, or as needed. Here are some vol-unteer positions we need to fill:Orderers: From time to time, we areable to order items from MANNA. Weneed someone to place orders atMANNA Food Bank on an ongoingbasis; however, you must first be an ex-perienced MANNA shopper and under-stand their systems before you can beginplacing orders. Shoppers: We are looking for volun-teers to shop at MANNA Food Bank onThursday mornings around 8 am. Weare also looking for volunteers to helpwith shopping at area grocery stores. Drivers: Once the food has been chosenat MANNA, we need drivers withtrucks/trailers to transport it back toFood for Fairview, particularly drivers

with large capacity trucks and/or trail-ers. We can at times have loads in excessof a ton to nearly two tons of food. Stockers: Once the food is picked upfrom MANNA, we need volunteers onThursdays from about 8:30 until 10 amto sort and stock the items. Shopping Assistants:When the pantryis open on Fridays from 9–12, volunteersare needed to assist clients in choosingand carrying food items to their cars. Phone attendant: we need a volunteerto utilize our answering system and relayphone messages to the appropriateFood for Fairview personnel.Fundraisers: We will not ask you to so-licit donations; we do need a team of in-dividuals willing to assist with theadministrative tasks of fundraising,such as making copies of fliers, etc.

Training is provided for all positions.If you are interested in these or othervolunteer opportunities, please give us acall at the pantry at 628-4322, email usat [email protected] or come bythe Fairview Community Center at 1357E. Charlotte Highway on Thursday orFriday from 9–12 to fill out a volunteerapplication. We’d love to have you! Re-member what they say:

“Those who can, do.Those who can do more — volunteer.”


Fairview Public Library1 Taylor Road, Fairview 828 250-6484

MON/WED/THURS/FRIDAY, 10 – 6 PMTUES, 10 AM – 8 PM | SAT 10 AM – 5 PM

CLOSED SUNDAYMOTHER GOOSE TIME (4–18 MO)

TUESDAYS, 11 AMTODDLER TIME (18 MO–3 YRS)

WEDNESDAYS, 11 AMPRESCHOOLER STORYTIME (3–6 YRS)

THURSDAYS, 10:30 AMChildren must be accompanied

by parent/adult

NEW ARRIVALSTumbledown by Robert Boswell

Stella Bain by Anita Shreve

The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton

King and Maxwell by David Baldacci

Bitter River by Julia Keller

Duplex by Kathryn Davis

The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan

The Tilted Worldby Tom Franklin/Beth Ann Fennelly

Quiet Dell by Jayne Ann Phillips

This is the Story of a Happy Marriageby Ann Patchett

New Zealand Culture and NatureFairview is in store for a treat when MikeGreen presents a program about theunique culture and nature of NewZealand on Tuesday, January 14, 7 pm atthe Fairview Library. New Zealand’stwo main islands rise abruptly from thePacific Ocean where the Pacific conti-nental plate collides with the Aus-tralian plate. The presentation will bea fascinating hour accompanied byphotos of the unique Maori cultureand art and unusual botany and zool-ogy. Refreshments will be served after-ward, courtesy of Friends of the Libraryvolunteers.

Book DiscussionsThe Afternoon Book Group will

meet on Thursday, January 9, 1 pm to dis-cuss The Monsters of Templeton by LaurenGroff.

The Evening Book Group will meeton Thursday, January 9, 7 pm to discussBlue Asylum by Kathy Hepinstall.

Purchase a Raffle TIcket for Handmade Quilt to Benefit Library

Members of the Spring MountainQuilting Bee have created a one-of-a-kindquilt to be raffled off to raise funds for aFriends of the Library special purchase.

“The members discussed, created,stitched, ironed, cut, changed theirminds, engineered, bought more fabricand a stunning quilt materialized,” saysmember Janna Perkinson. The SpringMountain Quilting Bee members alreadyparticipate in many charitable activitiessuch as the Linus Quilts for children incrisis, quilts for the military and educa-

tional projects, so this idea was in linewith what they were already doing.

The quilt is on display at the Li-brary. Its size is 62 x 77 inches and itis valued at $700. Proceeds from theraffle will help fund a computer pur-chase for the children’s section of thelibrary. Tickets are $5 each or 6 for$25, and are for sale at the Library andat local businesses. The drawing willbe held when 200 tickets have beensold... which is soon!

Longtime Fairview residents andQuilting Bee members Maria Hor-

ton and Kim Thompson have beenquilting for twenty years, and Fairviewresident and Bee leader Kay Jenkins is afive-year quilting veteran. UpcomingAsheville Quilt Guild president SharonSmith and Quilting Bee members SandyLeBrun, Jennifer Haines, Peggy Shackleyand Janna Perkins joined in the project,and newest member Barbara Jones, a

professional quilter, offered to put thefinishing touch on the creation withlong-arm free-motion quilting.

Raffle tickets make a great gift. One ofthem is going to be worth a gorgeous heir-loom quilt made by locals with love.

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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY.......................................................................................................................................................................... by Sydney Green

October 15, 2013For more than 50 years Ihave lived with much painin my back. Through thoseyears I have had many dif-ferent therapies and medi-cines to keep me workingthrough this pain. I even-tually had surgery, which then caused me even more painthrough the years.

Up until now, chiropractic seemed to help more than any-thing and I was able to continue to work…then I foundDr. Reilly and the Neurolumen. After just 3 weeks of acombination of chiropractic and the Neurolumen treat-ment, I am walking with my dog, using my elliptical andexercising (Dr. Reilly’s exercises for my back & hips.

I am consistently feeling lesspain than I have in so manyyears I can’t count them.Dr. Reilly has givenme the hope of heal-ing, which I hadlong given up on.

I thank Dr. Reillyand his staff forcaring so much intrying to help andheal people’s pain.

— Polly H.

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Happy News of Abby MoserAbby Moser has been selected to be

the Preschool Outreach Coordinator forthe Buncombe Library system. Begin-ning sometime in mid-January, Abbywill be working from the downtown li-brary and traveling all over the countywith volunteers who hold storytime atpreschools county-wide.

“Working with children is Abby’sgreat love, so we’re happy that she hasbeen recruited for this position,” saidMike Green. “But we’re sad to see her go.Abby has been a terrific librarian for ourcommunity.”


DAYS GONE BY ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................by Bruce Whitaker

The Dotsons of Fairview, Part 3Martin Fifer Dotson was born May 18,

1834 in North Carolina. He was theyoungest child of Josiah Harrison “Har-ris” Dotson (1790-1894) and EasterRogers Dotson (1795-1876 ca). Fifer Dot-son married Mary Connor (June 11,1839–November 22, 1924) around 1856.When the Civil War broke out, MartinFifer Dotson joined the side of the Con-federacy. He enlisted July 15, 1861, thesame day his brothers Nelson and JosiahDotson enlisted. All three brothers werein Company H, NC Infantry of the Con-federate Army. Fifer Dotson was capturedon April 6, 1865 at Farmville, Virginia.

After the war he and his wife Marylived in the Bat Cave section of EdneyvilleTownship in Henderson County. BothFifer and Mary Dotson attended Bat CaveBaptist Church. When Martin Fifer Dot-son died on July 3, 1901, he was buried in Bat Cave Bap-tist Church Cemetery. Mary Connor Dotson outlivedher husband by 23 years, then she too was buried in BatCave Baptist Church Cemetery in 1924.

James Nelson Dotson was born in RutherfordCounty, NC on December 17, 1864. He was theyoungest child of Nelson S. Dotson (1824-1864) andSarah Arnold Dotson. James N. Dotson was born 53days after his father’s death in a Richmond, Virginiahospital. James N. Dotson married Minnie HughieDotson December 25, 1888. Minnie was born in 1875.She was the daughter of Martin Fifer Dotson and MaryConnor Dotson. James and Minnie were first cousins.James and Minnie apparently lived on the farm of Min-nie’s father Fifer Dotson for several years after they weremarried. Minnie Hughie Dotson died October 21, 1904

at the age of 29. She was buried inBat Cave Baptist Church Ceme-tery.

James Nelson Dotson was mar-ried for the second time to DulaLaola Hudgins on October 21,1905. Dula was born May 24, 1887,the daughter of Joseph GrasonHudgins (1862-1939) and RoseAnn Owenby Hudgins (1858-1932).

James N. Dotson was a farmerand Justice of the Peace in BroadRiver most of his adult life. Hemarried people and held court athis house in regard to minor is-sues. Broad River was in McDow-ell County until around 1926. Itwas then made a part of Bun-combe County. Jim Dotson’s sec-

ond wife died of tuberculosis March 11, 1926. JamesNelson died of heart trouble September 30, 1939. Bothare buried in Old Field Cemetery at Broad River.

James Nelson Dotson did not get along very wellwith his first wife’s mother, Mary Connor Dotson. Afterhe first married Minnie Hughie Dotson, he and his wifeapparently lived on the same farm as her parents. Theyhad a turkey that was deformed. The turkey’s beak waslocated wrong. Jim took care of and fed the turkey.When it came time to kill the turkey, James N. Dotsoncould not kill the bird or eat it either. He wrote a poemabout the event around 1889.

Local historian Bruce Whitaker documents genealogy in theFairview area. Contact Mr. Whitaker by phone at 628-1089or email [email protected].

Charles Nelson Dotson

The Cross Billed Turkey The summer was ended, the crops were all doneA dinner was set, for the most favored ones.There had to be meat, to go with the bread,That meant cross billed turkey, would soon be dead.

For months they had him, turned under a tubThough he still wasn’t fat, from the limited grub.For old mother nature, had made quite a flopThe bottom of his beak, was mounted on his top.

His wattle hung limply, almost to the groundHe breathed through one nostril and it was upside downHow down at the wash place, the men huddled stillA coin would be tossed, in the death of cross bill.

While in his dark prison, old cross bill would squeakUnable to gobble, because of his beak.The lot fell on Kelton, although not of his willTo bring an end, to the life of cross bill.

The crowd had all gathered, the clock soon would strikeOne son-in-law missing, that Ma didn’t like.Now Jim would admit, he was sprouting no wingsHe just wouldn’t squat, when she said certain things.

He chose for his lot, to stay on the hillAnd weep for the death, of poor ole cross billI heard a faint flutter, as off came his headI know from my feelings, that cross bill was dead.

The grief and bereavement, was all I could standNo longer ole cross bill, would eat from my handWith thirst and with hunger, I sat on the hillWhile they ate the dumplings, from poor ole cross bill.

Written around 1889 by James Nelson Dotson

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FAIRVIEW FIRE DEPARTMENT.................................................................................................................................. by Chief Scott Jones

Today more than 80 percent of fire departmentsperform some level of emergency medical services(EMS), making professional fire fighters the largestgroup of providers of pre-hospital emergency care inNorth America. No other organization — public or pri-vate — is capable of providing pre-hospital emergencyresponse as efficiently and effectively as a fire depart-ment. Fire department operations are geared to rapidresponse, whether it is for EMS or fire suppression.Cross-trained and dual-role fire fighters are trained toaggressively attack their work whether it involves a fire,a rescue or a medical emergency.

The role of the professional fire fighter is constantlychanging. We are called upon to act as multi-facetedfirst responders, answering not only fire calls, but alsorescue, hazardous materials and emergency medicalcalls. By answering the challenge of change, we cancontinue to meet the needs of the communities weserve and do what we do best — save lives and protectproperty.

The Fairview Fire Department has spent the lastyear researching the need to expand our current emer-gency medical services to the community by adding anambulance to our fleet. This addition would allow usto respond to medical emergencies and have the capa-

bility of transportingthese patients to the hos-pital more quickly. Thisambulance will be staffedwith NC certified EMT-Intermediates (EMT-I).This level of certificationis an upgrade from ourcurrent NC EMT certifi-cation. The NC EMT-Icertification is basicallyone step below a Para-medic. They have many ofthe same skills and abili-ties, such as establishingan IV in a patient accord-ing to medical protocols.

We respond to an average of 800 medical calls peryear that require transport to the hospital. Approxi-mately 90% of those could be treated and transportedin an ambulance certified at the NC EMT-I level of care;the remaining 10% require a Paramedic level of care.When we respond to a situation where a patient, ac-cording to protocols, re-quires a Paramedic levelof care, BuncombeCounty EMS will respondand assist.

The Fairview commu-nity deserves the best fireand medical responsepossible. It is our goal tocontinually improve ourservices to the communi-ties we serve.

We have pur-chased the ambulanceand we are in theprocess of installingthe equipment andsupplies required tobe certified by the NCOffice of EmergencyMedical Services(NCOEMS) as a NCEMT-I level transportunit. There is a lot ofpaperwork that mustbe approved by manydifferent people atthe local and statelevel to be certified,

but we are nearing completion of all the necessary pa-perwork. Once the paperwork has been approved atthe local and state level, the ambulance must be in-spected and certified by the NC OEMS before it is al-lowed to transport patients. This inspection will takeplace 2–3 weeks after the paperwork process has been

submitted. We remain optimistic that the entire

process will be completed, the ambulancecertified and in service by sometime inFebruary. As soon as we receive notifica-tion that the ambulance is certified, wewill notify the community as soon as pos-sible.

Thank you for continued support aswe try our best to provide the best fire andmedical protection possible…YOU DE-SERVE IT!

Fairview Fire Department to Expand Emergency Medical Services

FFD Incidents November 2013 Fire ........................................8EMS .....................................40Public Service .......................13False Alarm ..........................15Motor Vehicle Accidents ..........6Gas Leak ................................1Total Incidents ......................83


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Getting and Staying Back in ActionEd Reilly, DC, CCSP, FIAMA, Fairview Chiropractic Center

Although chiropractorscare for more than just

back pain, many patients visit chiroprac-tors looking for relief from this perva-sive condition. In fact, 31 millionAmericans experience low-back pain atany given time.1

Facts about back pain• Low back pain is the single leadingcause of disability worldwide, accord-ing to the Global Burden of Disease 2010.

• Half of all working Americans admit tohaving back pain symptoms each year.2

• Back pain is one of the most commonreasons for missed work. In fact, backpain is the second most common rea-son for visits to the doctor’s office.

• Most cases of back pain are mechani-cal or non-organic.

• Americans spend at least $50 billioneach year on back pain.3

• Experts estimate that as much as 80%of the population will experience aback problem at some time in ourlives.4

What Causes Back Pain?The back is a complicated structure of

bones, joints, ligaments and muscles. Youcan sprain ligaments, strain muscles, rup-ture disks, and irritate joints, all of which

can lead to back pain. While sports in-juries or accidents can cause back pain,sometimes the simplest of movements —for example, picking up a pencil from thefloor — can have painful results. In addi-tion, arthritis, poor posture, obesity andpsychological stress can cause or compli-cate back pain. Back pain can also directlyresult from disease of the internal organs,such as kidney stones, kidney infections,blood clots or bone loss.Manipulation as a Treatment

Used primarily by Doctors of Chiro-practic (DCs) for the last century, nowwith today’s growing emphasis on treat-ment and cost effectiveness manipula-tion is receiving widespread attention. Itis very important to make an informedchoice about your back care. Chiroprac-tic spinal manipulation can be a safeand effective spine pain treatment. 5,6,7

Tips to Prevent Back Pain• Maintain a healthy diet and bodyweight.

• Remain active, under the supervisionof your health professional.

• Avoid prolonged inactivity or bedrest.

• Warm up or stretch before exercisingor other physical activities, such asgardening.

• Maintain proper posture.• Wear comfortable, low-heeled shoes.• Sleep on a mattress of medium firm-ness to minimize any curve in yourspine.

• Lift with your knees, keep the objectclose to your body, and do not twistwhen lifting.

• Quit smoking. Smoking impairsblood flow, resulting in oxygen andnutrient deprivation to spinal tis-sues.

• Ensure that your computer worksta-tion is ergonomically correct.

Dr. Ed Reilly is current president of the NorthCarolina Chiropractic Association, and ownerof Fairview Chiropractic Center since 1998. Hewas recently honored as 2013 DC of the yearby the NC Chiropractic Association. He may bereached at [email protected].

TO YOUR HEALTH ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Free Health LecturesReservations Required

Call 828 628-7800Fairview Chiropractic Center2 Fairview Hills Drive, Fairview

Neuropathy Relief in 8 Weeks!Thursday, January 9

5:15–6 pmLearn how several new technologies can eliminateneuropathy pain. Lecture followed by a demonstrationof the technology. One attendee will receive a gift cer-tificate for $250 toward treatment.

Advanced Technology To Avoid Back & Neck Surgery

Thursday, January 165:15–6 pm

Learn and see how several new technologies mayhelp alleviate acute or chronic neck, back, arm, leg,

bulging disc, stenosis or degenerative disc pain.

Posture Basics 101Thursday, January 23

5:15–6 pmFree Myovision scan, digital posture screening andfoot analysis. Posture Basics will be reviewed andsimple exercises explained. One attendee will wina posture pillow.

Help For PainWhen All Else FailsThursday, January 30

5:15–5:45 pmLearn how a remarkable new technology, a class 4deep tissue therapy laser, can turn on the body’shealing mechanism and help when all else fails.

1Jensen M, Brant-Zawadzki M, Obuchowski N, et al. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People Without Back Pain. New England Journal of Medicine 1994; 331: 69-116.2,4 Vallfors B. Acute, Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain: Clinical Symptoms, Absenteeism and Working Environment. Scan J Rehab Med Suppl 1985; 11: 1-98.3 Project Briefs: Back Pain Patient Outcomes Assessment Team (BOAT). In MEDTEP Update, Vol. 1 Issue 1, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD.5 Time to recognize value of chiropractic care? Science and patient satisfaction surveys cite usefulness of spinal manipulation. Orthopedics Today 2003 Feb; 23(2):14-15.6 Bigos S, Bowyer O, Braen G, et al. Acute Low Back Problems in Adults. Clinical Practice Guideline No.14. AHCPR Pub #95-0642. Rockville, MD: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Public HealthService, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, December, 1994. 7 Goodman D, Burke A, Livingston E. Low Back Pain. JAMA. 2013; 309(16):1738.


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Benjamin Gilmer, MD,MAHEC Family Health Center at Cane Creek

There has been a lot of talk recently aboutwhat it means to understand your owngenetic makeup and the implications ofthis self-discovery. This week we learnedthat the FDA is shutting down the com-pany “23andMe,” which allows people tolearn more about their own genetics in-dependently. Apparently the FDA has de-termined that the company’s science isflawed in part, making it not only confus-ing but also potentially dangerous.

Learning about our genes is fasci-nating but also demands a mature ap-proach in what one does with thiscomplicated new information. With23andMe making the national news oflate, patients are starting to ask somecomplicated questions such as: “If I testpositive for the Breast Cancer 1 or 2 gene,does that mean I should have a hysterectomyor mastectomy?”

This year I have been invigorated tounderstand the implications of severaldifferent genetic disorders and have be-come a real student of genetics. Many ofyou read the article I wrote about Dr.Vince Gilmer, the original founder of theCane Creek office, and his tragedy. Ihelped to reveal that his behavior changeswere caused by Huntington’s disease — arare genetic disorder that affects bothmind and muscles. I use this as an exam-ple because many genetic abnormalitiesoften go unnoticed.

Our genes are the blueprints thatpredetermine much of our physiology— how our bodies work. If your ances-tors are from Scotland, like mine, youmay have a greater likelihood of havingbad cholesterol or pre-cancerous skinlesions on your face. If you are fromCentral America, you are geneticallypredisposed to Type 2 diabetes. EvenItalians are not immune; although theircholesterol may be better than theScots, they may have an increased riskfor G6PD, a metabolic disorder.

I was struck recently by a conversationwith a cousin who was recently tested fora metabolic disorder. For him, this un-derstanding inspired him to change hisdiet, and now his longtime symptoms offatigue and anxiety have melted awayafter 20 years. For Dr. Vince Gilmer, un-derstanding his genes has greatly eluci-dated his personality and his tics;moreover, it has helped to guide his treat-ment, and his symptoms have dramati-cally improved.

There are complicated questions re-garding our own personal genomes, in-cluding how much we want to know andwhat we will do with that information. Ihave been involved recently with severalpatients who are trying to make this deci-sion. If you are a potential Huntington’s

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Whew, what a ride! The 2013Medicare Advantage Annual

Enrollment Period (AEP) ended on De-cember 7. For those who are newly en-rolled, there’s a plethora of paperwork toreview… Evidence of Coverage, Summaryof Benefits and other documents, plusthree or more phone calls from the insur-ance company (many mandated byMedicare). In a tongue-in-cheek way, I’vedubbed this syndrome Post EnrollmentStress Disorder or PESD. Seriously, theseefforts are designed to help you under-stand what you’ve enrolled in and how theplan can serve your specific health needs.These are all good things so take heart.Heartburn City!

Digesting all of this information canreally give you heartburn but it is impor-tant to review the “small print” in thesedocuments to make sure you got whatyou thought you enrolled in. If you had aprevious MA or Rx plan (PDP) and en-rolled in another MA plan or PDP, youshould have received a letter notifying youthat your old plan was being immediatelyterminated. There was no need to panic asall MA or Rx plans enrolled during theAEP went into effect on January 1, rightafter the old plan expires. Can I Change Back?

Generally speaking, you will be“locked in” to the choice you’ve made forall of next year. If you have “buyer’s re-morse” or feel the plan turns out not to be

right for you, you needn’t worry. TheMedicare Advantage Disenrollment Pe-riod (MADP) between January 1 and Feb-ruary 14 may give you some relief. Iaddressed this in detail in December’s col-umn but that information can also befound on page 80 in your copy of Medicareand You 2014 that all Medicare beneficiar-ies should have received by now. If you’vetossed or misplaced it, you can go tomedicare.gov and order or download acopy, call Medicare, or contact me and I’llbe happy to go over your choices with you.

Medicare Advantage plans have, forthe most part, been a welcome alternativefor many people. The program has ma-tured over the years and is becoming moreaccepted by Medicare beneficiaries andhealth care providers as well. Medicaresupplements are still the favorite of manypeople wanting the most robust benefits,flexibility, and peace of mind; but whileAdvantage plans are not supplements,they are an excellent way to enjoy goodbenefits, reduce exposure to health carecosts and minimize premium dollars.

I hope you and your loved ones had awonderful holiday season with family andfriends. Have a very blessed 2014.

Questions and comments? I can bereached at [email protected] or viaphone at 628-3889 H and 275-5863 C.

Mike Richard is president of Prime Time Solu-tions, Inc., an insurance agency specializing insenior insurance products since 1998.

Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork!Mike Richard, President, Prime Time Solutions, Inc.

TO YOUR HEALTH ......................................................................

Well, it is getting close to theNew Year. I feel like it’s going

to be just like the last one. I used to look for-ward to my life, to have dreams and makeresolutions, but now I just kind of acceptand get by. Is there anything that will makeme dream again?

The short an-swer is, “No, thereis nothing that willmake you dreamagain.”

At the sametime, by askingthis question youhave taken thefirst step on yourpath toward dreaming, by recognizingyour want. I like to say “You areheaded somewhere, may as well makeit somewhere you want to go.” You aretraveling around in a big circle at 1000miles an hour on this planet. Whatkeeps you from just flying off? Thisplanet is headed 67,000 miles an houraround the sun. I would wager youdon’t even notice the speed. You arealso on an individual journey, headedin multiple directions on each of themany paths or roles you live. If you payattention to one of those paths today,you will be exposed to something youhave not noticed before or for a while.You may want to pay attention to ac-tual signs you pass on the road today.

You can pay attention to people yousee and make up a story for one ofthem. Play with the ideas in your heador make up something and write itdown.

Recognizing movement on yourjourney and beingcurious are bothessential to dream-ing. Routine, withits own momen-tum — what AWAYcalls autopilot — isnecessary for youto survive. Livingonly in autopilotwithout accessingyour humanity

(the part of you capable of makingchoices outside of your routine) can sti-fle your dreams, making you lose sightof opportunities on your journey.

Find one new way a day to step outof your routine and you may find thisNew Year is different from the last. Al-though nothing can make you dreamagain, there are many, many ways towake up the dreamer in you.

Blair Clark is a Licensed Professional CounselorSupervisor and author of Answers to WhatAils You, (AWAY). You can find the book onAmazon.com or get in touch with Blair throughFacebook. If you would like to submit a questionor concern to Blair Clark, please email in confi-dence to [email protected]

YOU ARE HERE .......... By Blair Holland Clark LPC, LCAS CCS

Dreamers


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MEADOW WOOD Immaculate 4BR/3.5BA home ona .75 acre private lot. Fam. room w/rock fireplace, for-mal DR, lg kitchen w/island. Great MB 2/ walk-in closet,M bath w/jet tub. 2 car gar. on main, addn l̀ garage doorin bsmt w/ storage. Level back yard w/coy pond andpotting shed just off deck. In-law suite & game roomon lower level. MLS# 544846 $365,000 Call Rick WONDERFUL ONE LEvEL LIvING on 3.5 private

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COMPUTER BYTES.................by Bill Scobie, Scobie.net

Thirty-Second TricksI had “fun” over one of

these past weekends work-ing my way through health-care.gov. Since I quickly

found that clicking from question toquestion was giving me about 30 sec-onds of waiting, I decided to find activi-ties that fit the time gap.

After toting up my work mileage forthe tax year, I turned to:Thirty-Second Tasks

Checking for software updates, Win-dows Update for Windows or SoftwareUpdate for Macs. Not to forget Adobeproducts like Reader and Flash. Alsomaking sure all web browsers are up-to-date.

Changing passwords after reading“studies suggest red-haired women tendto choose the best passwords and menwith bushy beards or unkempt hair, theworst.” This means using different pass-words for each site and keeping track ofthem with something like LastPass.

Turning over my keyboard and lap-top to gently tap out dust and crumbs,and blowing out the air intakes and ex-haust areas, then wiping off the screenwith a lint-free cloth.

Emptying my email trash, my com-puter trash, even my office trash.

Updating my emergency list of all myaccounts, logins and passwords, in caseI am incapacitated or something worse.

Checking my Facebook privacy set-tings — oops, that took longer than 30seconds.

Looking for 30-second physical exer-cises; I found one called the ThoracicBridge. But for some of us, just gettingup and looking out the window for 30seconds would be easier and maybe evenbetter.

Making sure my backups are work-ing by looking for something recent onthe backup drive and on the online serv-ice.

Looking at one of those ergonomicposture pictures and realizing that I ambreaking almost all the rules because Iam using a laptop. I decided to startusing a monitor plugged into my lap-top, one that would make me raise myhead up more. Or I could look awayevery few minutes to avoid locking myneck at one position.

Unplugging my laptop and using itlong enough to run down the batterybelow half. This is something I have todo once a month to get better batterylife. OK, that didn’t take 30 seconds, butstill it fit between questions on health-care.gov.

I am sure there are many more 30-second tricks, but the main goal is to bepatient, not only with healthcare.govbut with those times that the computerjust wants to take longer to finish some-thing and no amount of double-clickingwill speed it up.Bill Scobie, of Scobie.Net, provides small busi-ness and home computer and networking sup-port for PCs and Macs. 628-2354 [email protected].


Winter is a drearyseason for mostof us. It’s our

coldest and cloudiest season and, tomake matters worse, the hours of day-light are fewest. And January scoresworst of the worst on most counts.It’s our coldest, cloudiest, windiestand snowiest month. In addition, Jan-uary brings the greatest likelihood offreezing rain. But for all of its nega-tive weather aspects, there is onebright spot in January: The days aregetting longer. The shortest day ofthe year was on December 21 (thewinter solstice) when there were 9hours and 45 minutes of daylight.Days have been growing longer sincethen, and by the end of January thehours of daylight will have increasedto 10 hours and 26 minutes, an addi-tion of 41 minutes of daylight. An-other 57 minutes of daylight will beadded by the end of February.

Snowfall in Fairview varies greatlyfrom one winter to another. Just inthe last five winters, total seasonalsnowfall has ranged from as little as5.7" to as much as 51.2". As of thiswriting (December 11), only 1.4" hasoccurred this winter. Average sea-sonal snowfall ranges from about 13"in Fairview’s lower elevations to 23.9"at our observation station (3,650 feet)to 35.0" at 4,320 feet on Flat TopMountain.

Looking Back at 2013Final number are not yet in, but

this much is certain: 2013 was verycool and incredibly wet. Average tem-perature for the period January 1through December 10 was 52.7 de-grees, or 2.7 degrees below the 14-yearaverage of 55.4 degrees for that period.That’s the coolest year in the 14 yearsfor which temperature records are

available at the observa-tion station.

Total precipitationfor 2013 (as of December10) stood at 65.96", or17.93" above the full-yearaverage of 48.03" andslightly ahead of 2009’sfull-year total of 65.80".Excessive rainfall andcool temperatures char-acterized the spring andmuch of the summer of2013.

Richard Koeneman retiredafter 30 years as a meteorolo-gist with the NationalWeather Service. Visit his web-site at theweathercorner.com.

LOCAL WEATHER.................................................................................................................................................................... .by Richard Koeneman, Meteorologist

Winter Weather

Average Monthly Temperature

Coldest to Warmest___________________January 36.2ºFebruary 38.3ºDecember 38.5ºMarch 46.4ºNovember 48.0ºApril 54.7ºOctober 56.2ºMay 61.9ºSeptember 64.9ºJune 68.0ºJuly 70.4ºAugust 70.8º

Lowest Temps5 Previous Winters___________________

2012/13 12º

2011/12 7º2010/11 2º2009/10 4º2008/09 –1º

Snowfall5 Previous Winters___________________

2012/13 18.0"2011/12 5.7"2010/11 51.2"2009/10 50.5"2008/09 25.1"


In mid-December, the Southern Ap-palachian Highlands Conservancy(SAHC) protected another tract at Hick-ory Nut Gap. This new conservationeasement preserves 62 acres adjacent tothe Florence Nature Preserve and closeto the Drovers Road Scenic Byway. Theproperty will remain privately owned,with permanent protection against fu-ture development.

“You may recall SAHC reporting onthe three properties we protected atHickory Nut Gap last December, whichtotaled 173 acres spanning both sides ofthe Drovers Road Scenic Byway,” saidMichelle Pugliese, SAHC’s Land Protec-tion Director. “This year we were able toexpand the protection in the Gap by en-suring that the headwaters and tributar-ies of Ashworth Creek, and the intactforested views from the Drovers RoadScenic Byway, will remain pristine for-ever.”

Five tributaries of Ashworth Creekflow through the conservation ease-ment property, three of which are head-water streams originating on its woodedslopes. The southern portion of theproperty also lies within the AudubonSociety Chimney Rock-Hickory NutGorge Important Bird Area and pro-vides wildlife habitat.

This newly protected tract is adjacentto the Florence Nature Preserve, a pop-

ular public recreation area for hikersand mountain bikers that is owned byCarolina Mountain Land Conservancy.Placing a conservation easement on theadjoining 62-acre parcel will help pre-serve the public’s wilderness experienceon the existing trail system at the Flo-rence Nature Preserve. There may alsobe an opportunity to expand the public

trail system onto this property, in accor-dance with the regional trail planningeffort for the Hickory Nut Gap area, saidPugliese. The regional trail planning isbeing done in partnership with CarolinaMountain Land Conservancy and otherstakeholders in the region.

“This property has been a conserva-tion priority in the landscape due to its

location adjacent to the Florence NaturePreserve as well as its visibility from andproximity to the Drovers Road ScenicByway,” said Pugliese.

The new conservation easement wascompleted using private donor fundsand a grant from the NC Department ofTransportation Scenic Byways LandConservation Initiative. Scenic bywaysare designated routes that have beencarefully selected to embody the beautyand culture of the state while providingtravelers with a safe and interesting al-ternate route. Funds from the LandConservation Initiative of the NC ScenicByways program help protect the char-acteristics that make these routesunique.

The mission of the Southern AppalachianHighlands Conservancy (a land trust) is toconserve the unique plant and animalhabitat, clean water, farmland and scenicbeauty of the mountains of North Carolinaand Tennessee for the benefit of presentand future generations. SAHC was foundedin 1974 and has protected over 63,000acres from the Highlands of Roan to theedge of the Great Smoky Mountains Na-tional Forest. SAHC regularly offers out-reach experiences and guided hikes toconnect people with protected properties. For more information, please visitwww.Appalachian.org.

CONSERVATION.................................................................................................................................................................................................... by Angela Shepherd

Piecing the PuzzleNew Conservation Easement at Hickory Nut Gap


Grand Master Roger Jones is the embodiment of theSamurai.

When I visited the tenth degree martial arts trainer athis Oriental-themed home in Fairview, North Carolina,Jones came outside to greet me. The first things I noticedwere the man's strong grip and keen stare, no doubtbyproducts of sixty-three years in the sport. I soon learnedJones owned a passion for helping people, a testament tothe 17,000-plus students he has guided throughout a fiftyyear professional career in Karakido, his very own martialarts formula for defense.

“Think of a figure eight,” said Jones, reclining back ina comfortable couch in a living room adorned with lovelyart and personal tributes from his numerous friendsaround the world.

“Karakido is derived from three base words: Karameaning open, Ki for inner power, and Do, the way of. To-gether, they all interconnect life's energy rings to the pathof inner power. In fact, the inner power of Ki has some-times made an ordinary person stronger to the point ofseemingly supernatural ability.”

Jones attended Western Carolina University, but con-fessed that if not for his father, a strict disciplinarian, ac-ademics might not have been in his future. His father, avaledictorian at the UNC Chapel Hill, believed peopleshould live below their means, a judicious philosophy adopted after watching hisparents lose everything in the Depression. Jones said his father once told him,“I'm going to give you a roof over your head and feed you, but other than thatyou will be on your own. If you want a baseball glove or bike get off your behindand earn it.”

Using this principle, Roger flourished at WCU and upon graduation entered theAir Force. An exclusive art program recognized his skills at Randolph AFB head-quarters in San Antonio, Texas. Not very long after that, Jones soon discovered thatart became an “instant gratification,” a thread that would be deeply woven to thisday. When I asked how he got into martial arts, Jones said he began at the age of six,but had to wait to make an official impact in the sport.

“It's different now,” said Jones.“Back then, non-Asians and females were frowned upon in martial arts and you

had to reach sixteen years old even to be accepted.” Jones confessed that as a young-ster, he was not a great athlete, but he was fast and could “take a licking, and keepon ticking,” going on to paint an image of a fast, skinny kid with a determinedwork ethic who became a National Kata Champion in 1969 at twenty-three yearsold.

Kata is the art of fighting imaginary opponents. The discipline can be likened to combative floor exercises. Jones went on to

state that Kata should be mandatory for every stunt person. “The fight scenes re-quire flawless choreography and the actor must be able to repeat his moves formultiple takes.”

Jones actually starred in one action movie. Angel With a Kick also co-starred CecilPeople, the first black martial arts instructor inducted into the Martial Arts Hallof Fame and one of Jones's mentors. In addition, Jones, legendary boxer Joe Louisand Chuck Norris once held titles as the best in the world. Jones also told me itwas Joe Louis and not Chuck Norris who had the inside track in movies.

“Joe Louis's personality style clashed with Hollywood directors, so Norris wasgiven a shot.” And the rest, as they say, is history. In fact, Jones credits Norris withthe accelerated growth in martial arts, due to his colleague’s action movies andtelevision shows. Jones recalled one time when he, Norris, and another well-knownmartial arts expert were sitting in a pub in Beverly Hills, California. Since he didn'tdrink alcohol, Norris was sipping on his club soda, lamenting how he thought hisfriend was the luckiest man alive.

“Ok, I'll bite,” said Jones. “Roger, even though you're as well respected in the martial arts circle as we are,

at least you can leave your house and not have to worry about fans disrupting yourlife. I was in a restroom the other day at a urinal and this guy standing next to meturns and shouts, ‘OMG! You're Chuck Norris’ — and then proceeds to urinateall over my leg.”

“I understood what he was saying,” said the aging martial arts expert duringour interview. “And I also told Chuck I felt sorry he had to endure the gobs ofmoney being thrown at him,” laughed Jones.

Jones has been teaching Karakido in Fairview since1977. In fact, Jones proudly professes that he can date hisancestral roots to the very first settlers in Swannanoaaround the late 1600's. He loves Western North Carolina,a mecca for celebrities, among whom he humbly does notinclude himself. I told Jones how I knew of Gladys Knightin Fairview and Steve Martin in Brevard, but he surprisedme with other celebrities who have moved here to enjoythe serenity of the mountains.

"Charleston Heston was the first director of theAsheville Community Theatre," said Jones. "Now it’s theCharleston Heston Asheville Community Theatre. Therewas also this one guy who worked for the Asheville paper,and got fired for doodling in the columns. His name wasWalt Disney."

"Leo Monahan is also a dear friend of mine." "Not many people," said Jones, "know he was a part-

time sheriff in California as well as a fantastic paper artistwho not only taught paper sculpture to the Japanese, who invented origami, butcolor to the Disney artists. Leo also studied karate in California under the tutelageof the great Edmond Parker. Some of his classmates were Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris,and Steven McQueen. Leo now lives in Weaverville and has a gallery in the Grove-wood gallery. He's taught some of my classes at my school and he's 80 years old."

Like his friend, Jones now spends more time with his other love. “I'm pushing seventy and even though I can still spar and hold my own with the

younger crowd,” confided Jones, “I find myself getting tired. In my brain, I'mtwenty-nine, but my body says no — you're not,” he laughed.

“I forget that until I have to move.”As if to prove his point, Jones gingerly peeled himself up from his couch, arthritic

fingers bent at odd angles from decades of his beloved craft, but he dared not showweakness. Jones explained that martial arts is one of those sports where even if youwere 130 years old, your students would still say, “My martial arts teacher can whipyour martial arts teacher.”

“You are held to a higher standard than other retired athletes.” “So now I'm more into my painting.” One of Jones's favorite artists happens to

reside right here in Fairview. “Bob Travers is an incredible artist,” states Jones, whoseown proofs of propensity with brush and canvas were hung very modestly through-out the home, affording the more conspicuous viewing areas to a congress of tal-ented colleagues and friends Jones has met throughout his very colorful career.

“I will look like a starving artist next to these people.”Not so.

Stunning, vibrant,exotic butterflies, andhummingbirds mor-phing up from rich,cerulean waters. Beau-tiful oils of the color-ful koi fish he tends toin his ponds. Mysticalbonsai trees, wildlifecaptures, beach scenesand a personal Christ-mas card series. I ex-pressed amazement athis dramatic flair withcolors, to which Jonescoyly stated that oncea very well-knownlocal architect articu-lated the very samesentiment.

“I'm actually colorblind,” he confided.“But each tube has thecolor right on it, so Imuddle through.”

Jones's partner,Debbie, a charming ex-Texan and a sixth de-gree black belt student

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A Blending of Arts

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It ... Xueby Lynn Stanley

In some ways it’s truly a small world. Many places onthis planet have snow, and most of us who dwell in thoseplaces complain about the shoveling and the cold untilsummer, when it’s the heat that bothers us, of course.

But when we look at the different ways we expressthese universal thoughts, that’s when we’re remindedhow vast the world really is. The Chinese language, forinstance, has no phonetic framework; instead, the writ-ten language is made up of characters that are oftencombinations of various simpler parts. Each combina-tion has its own unrelated pronunciation which can’t be deduced, only memorized.Learning it can be maddening and fascinating at the same time.

The Chinese word for “snow,” for instance, is made up of two parts: at the top isthe character for “rain,” in which you can see raindrops falling from the lid of sky;and the bottom character means “broomstick.” And so, snow is rain that we cansweep with a broom. And its sound is represented as xue, pronounced “sheh.”

Of course, words in many languages are built by combining other words to createa new but related meaning — such as the English “snowshoe” — but in Chinese it’sa bit more complicated since the combined characters often contain bits of oddmeaning left over from some other word construction. The Mandarin word for“ski,” for example, is huaxue. If we were trying to figure out what the word meantfrom looking at the character combination, we would immediately recognize“snow;” but what’s this character in front of it, hua?

Well ... those three splashy looking dots on the left signify water, but the top hatand ladder next to them? They’re the characters for bones, as in a skeleton, and themeat on (or off) them. Wait, what? Yes, it’s true; and the character made of those

three signifiers means ... to slip or slide. So to ski in Mandarin is to slide like water

over a skeleton on rain you can sweep with abroom. Looking at it like that, it seems like awhole new level of adventure.

And to me, so does studying such a differ-ent mode of expression; while difficult, it caninstill a deep appreciation of the flexibility andinventiveness of the human mind.

Lynn Stanley is a linguist and artist, and also your Town Crier’s copyeditor. See her work atsilverpoemstudio.com or by visiting her at Silverpoem Studio and Gallery, 375 Depot Street,Studio 107, in the River Arts District, Fridays & Saturdays, 12–5 and by appointment.


herself, lends herartiste companion in-spiration and accord-ing to Roger is verytalented in her ownright.

“Her voice is acombination of Bar-bara Streisand andBette Midler.”

As I was gettingready to leave, RogerJones graced me witha few of his labors of love, one being afantastic postcard of a beach scene, butthen to my delight, my newest friend re-galed me with one more tale.

“One day,” said Jones, “We were re-turning from a function, driving alongthe parkway when Debbie all of suddenshouts ‘Stop! Right here.’”

“She made me pull over,” said Jones.

It seemed Debbie had her favorite scenicoverlook in mind and wanted her friendto paint the breathtaking vista for her. Ifollowed Jones into his private artistesanctuary where he revealed the result, adelightful capture of the Blue Ridge

Mountains painted entirely from mem-ory. As we shook hands for what I hopedwould not be the final time, Jones, ahumble man who not only holds worldtitles, but also dines with celebrities, saidfrom his doorstep, “It was an honor tomeet you.”

The world needs more starvingartists like Roger Jones.

WT Dufrane is a local writer. His latest workof adventure fiction, SevenX, is scheduled tocome out in early 2014. An excerpt from the book can be found onhis blog at jthardroc.wordpress.com.

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Fairview Elementary’s Fairview 5winners for each month are chosen bytheir teachers because they are rolemodel students who are respectful, re-sponsible, safe, successful, and helpful.These students and their families are in-vited to attend a special assembly where

they are awarded a medal, certificate anda classroom trophy. Each student iscalled to accept the prizes while Mrs.Reed reads kind comments about themfrom their teachers. Congratulations toNovember’s (top) and December’s(below) winners!

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Fairview Elementary’sChristmasConcertFairview ElementarySchool’s Christmas con-cert was a huge hit for allwho had the pleasure.


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This is the story about a dog. It is alsoa story about the town and the wonder-ful people who saved her. It has a veryhappy ending, though a bittersweet onefor me — Sadie’s almost owner.

Sadie is a sweet, gentle, very lovingblack lab who needed a home. Maggie inCharlotte loved Sadie dearly, but unfor-tunately had to be away a great deal; andso a mutual friend asked me if I wouldbe willing to adopt her. My husband andI hadn’t been looking to adopt anotheranimal, but my friend’s love for this veryspecial dog convinced me.

So I rented a car and drove from NewHampshire to North Carolina on myschool break to adopt a dog I had nevermet or seen a picture of.

When I met Sadie I knew I had beenright. I fell in love with her immediately.She was incredibly loving and very sweet.After meeting her, I knew she would bea great therapy dog I could take to nurs-ing homes and schools and anywhereelse that people needed love.

I had an extra day and wanted to ex-plore, so I was excited to take Sadie foran adventure to Asheville and was aston-ished at the beauty of the Blue RidgeMountains.

A contact in the area had a VW repairshop in Fairview. Sadie was at my side asI helped Tom push a car into the garage.It had snowed and there was a layer ofsnow on the car. A fun, spontaneoussnowball fight was started.

I didn’t think of Sadie’s shynessuntil it was too late. Suddenly she wasgone. That was Wednesday, November27 at 8:15 am. After hours of searching,Tom, the shop owner, graciously let mesleep on his couch. But I couldn’t sleep.I got up and drove back to the shop; shehadn’t come back yet. I started makingcalls to all the shelters, veterinarians,hospitals, police and sheriff. I called myhusband and asked him to post on theinternet and to start working on a flyer.

On Thanksgiving Day I went to eachof the shop’s neighbors. Everyone whoanswered the door was kind and con-cerned, assuring me that it was a goodtown and people would help me find mydog. Complete strangers invited me in,took my contact information and gaveme theirs, gave me hope, offered sugges-tions, looked up a number for the localradio station (Carri Keull), gave me tis-sues for my tears, hugs for comfort and

even a bottle of water. I felt badly aboutinterrupting people’s Thanksgivingwith their families, but everyone wasmore than gracious. No one asked mewhat political party or church I belongto; everyone just loved me like I was theirneighbor.

It was later that night l that I got myfirst bit of hope. As I described Sadie tothe very nice Citgo cashier, a man wait-ing said he had just seen a black dog inthe school parking lot. “Could you showme?” “Yes!” Yet another kind strangertook time out of his night to help me.But there was no sign of her.

I drove back up to the shop to tellTom. He got a flashlight and we droveback down to the school. As we weredriving, we saw Sadie running near theelementary school. We searched for herin the woods and thicket, but to no avail.

The next day I went east and southof the shop. I talked to Jeff, then to a

roofer who was busy cutting wood forhis father, and to Patty, who brought mewater and invited me to sit while I toldher about Sadie. As we were exchangingnumbers we got a call from Jeff, who had

GUEST WRITER ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Sometimes It Does “Take a Village...” in this case, to Find a Dog!

Sadie was on the front page last month asa Lost dog but was found through the non-stop efforts of some amazing people.

Marty Nycum with Sadie. Crystal and Jason with trap.L-R Maggie Cortes, Laurie Johnson and Crystal Parsons


just spotted her. Patty offered to drive methere in her pickup. On the way, I got acall from the roofer who had seen her too.We all went searching for her; I did notknow at the time how difficult it was forPatty to walk.

Then I saw Sadie walking in the woodsnear the ballpark, but she slipped awayagain. I searched the school and every oneof the school buses. I drove to the neigh-borhoods south of the school and metmany more kind, generous and helpfulneighbors.

I ordered two side orders of baconfrom the Local Joint to tempt her, and onthe way there I stopped and asked a won-derful couple in a cute red car if they hadseen her. Though they were on their wayelsewhere, the Ledbetters took me to lookon their property where it abutted theballpark.

Everyone at the Local Joint was kindand encouraging as well. Back at thewoods, I rubbed the bacon on the groundin trails going back to the shop in hopesthat it would tempt her into coming back.

My husband had finished the flyer buttold me that the rental car company ab-solutely had to have the car back Saturdaynight. It was now Friday, 5pm. I printedthe flyers and headed back to Fairview tosearch some more.

I was exhausted and discouraged. Ihad so little time. I went everywhere Icould think of and put up flyers. Eventu-ally I gave up; I slept from 3:30am to 5, butI couldn’t leave without trying again. I

looked in all the school buses,I searched the woods, I wentto the end of the ball fieldwhere I had last seen her. I leftFairview, turned around,drove back to the school and looked somemore. I drove back up the hill and to Woofin the Woods. I left more flyers every-where I could.

The drive home was rough, and I fellasleep in the car as my husband drove mehome from the rental car agency.

People began calling with sightings.Many called and offered to put up moreflyers and to help look when there was asighting. I took every call from NC. Thenext week became a blur.

That is where Marty comes in. He wasmy savior. I was on my knees quite a lotsince Sadie went missing; I prayed to myfather, whom I lost almost ten years ago,

and asked him to help me find Sadie. Ithink Marty was my dad’s answer to myprayer. Marty put his own name andnumber on the flyer and called me imme-diately.

Marty and I were in constant contactfor the week that I was back in NewHampshire. He kept me together. So didPatty, Josie, Crystal Parsons, Laurie John-son and Jason Hill. I have enormous grat-itude for everyone who called and looked,who printed out and put up flyers and of-fered hope and prayers — Christine Fell-rath, Laura Booth, and Sandie Rhodesamong them.

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Marty’s MessageThis note is for those who helped and

those who requested that I keep them in-formed on our progress to find Sadie.

I am so happy to inform you that Sadiewas found at 5pm Dec. 7 at the residence ofJason Hill on Joe Jenkins Road.

She is safe and sound. And very veryhappy and grateful that all of you took thetime out of your lives to care enough to do allthat you could do to help her during this timeof great need in her life! She desperatelyneeded our help or she would have surely per-ished alone and cold. It’s people like you thatmake this community so special to live in.And I’m extremely proud to call all of youmy neighbors.

I wish every one of you could have beenthere to see Sadie’s happy face when shebolted towards her previous owner Maggie,who had traveled so far to help us. Sadie mademy Christmas.

And behind all efforts there was Julie upin New Hampshire. Her calls, emails andtexts brought this tragic situation to the fore-front of everyone’s mind, not only inFairview, but the entire Buncombe Countyarea. As a former volunteer FairviewEMT/Firefighter/Rescue Technician I havebeen on many search and rescues, and I cantell you both honestly and professionally thatJulie didn’t leave a stone unturned.

On behalf of those who are closest to andlove Sadie, and Sadie herself, I want to thankall of you for your compassion and help in lo-cating her.

— Marty Nycum

We are writing to thank you for your business in the past year(quite a few of you even longer) and to also let you know some ofthe things we do that you might not be aware of. We do grading, clearing, road building, driveway repair. All

types of property clearing and erosion control. We do removal of underbrush, removing dead limbs and such

from existing trees, do tree take downs and removal, also grindstumps.We do hydroseeding, supply and plant all types of shrubs, trees,

plants and sod. Also haul gravel, dirt, and mulch.We can correct all drainage problems. Replace old drain pipes

from the gutters, all sizes of catch basins, install storm drains andpipe of all sizes. We build retaining walls, patios, walkways, steps from your

choice of all types of block, wood, rock, pavers. We also can buildfire pits.Up to 70% of this list can be done in the winter. This is a slow

time of year for us and therefore we could give you a great priceon getting some work done before spring hits.Fairview Landscaping now holds a General Contractors license

and Ornamental and Turf-Pesticide license. We are fully insuredand all our work is guaranteed. We work for individuals andbusinesses.Everyone at Fairview Landscaping hopes you had a good

Christmas and we hope you have a great New Year.

Julie with Sadie.


The holiday season and all its foodare behind us. Winter is upon us with itscold temperatures and shorter daylighthours. With all of this it is common forpeople and their pets to gain weight inthe winter, simply because people arenot outside and active as much in thewinter and neither are their pets. There-fore they both gain weight.

One of the most common New Year’sresolutions we make is tolose weight — admirablein both people and theirpets. Weight issues arereaching epidemic por-tions in this country—just go to the mall andlook around. A report bythe Center for DiseaseControl states thatgreater than sixty per-cent of people in this country are over-weight or obese. In a startling trend, ourpets are now beginning to follow theirowner’s poor example.

Many health-related issues for ourpets are associatedwith their being over-weight. Osteoarthri-tis, respiratoryproblems, cardiovas-cular disease, dia-betes, increasedincidence of cancerand a decreased lifespan are some healthissues that are di-rectly affected by our pets’ being over-weight or obese. Even horses and poniesare affected; a higher incidence oflaminitis occurs when they are over-weight. The University Of PennsylvaniaSchool Of Veterinary Medicine did astudy that showed the life span of over-weight dogs was decreased by 1.8 years.In other words, in the group studied, theleaner dogs lived almost two yearslonger than those dogs that were over-weight.

Another study showed the relation-ship between older overweight dogs andthe increased incidence of osteoarthritis.The study was comprised of older over-weight dogs that were significantly af-fected by arthritis. No medications were

given to the dogs; the only thing thatwas done for the dogs was their weightwas reduced by ten percent. After theweight loss the dogs showed significantimprovement in their movement andmobility.

Can you “pinch an inch”? That hasbeen a test for determining whether aperson is overweight or not for manyyears and can be — somewhat — applied

to our pets, as well. Oneof the best indicators ofyour pet’s appropriateweight is how well youcan feel their ribs. Youshould be able to feel theribs with your fingerswith only a slight cover-ing of skin and the un-derlying tissue between.If you cannot feel the

ribs at all then your pet is overweightand possibly obese.

Now, if you know your pet has aweight issue, what do you do? Just aswith people, you must reduce their

caloric intake andincrease their activ-ity level. There aremany types of dietfoods available forboth dogs and cats.Consult your per-sonal veterinarianfor what is best foryour pet(s). A bigproblem in multi-

animal households is multiple foodbowls with the increased possibility ofone animal consuming more than theirallotted portion. You will have to guardagainst this behavior. It is best to putfood down for only 10-15 minutes andthen take up whatever is left. In otherwords, cut out the all-day buffet lines.

Increasing activity level can be assimple as taking your dog for a dailywalk (lots of luck trying to take your catfor a walk) or playing ball with your dogor cat. Or you could have your cat chaseyour dog and then they both will getvaluable exercise.

For the sake of your pet’s health,stick to the Weight Resolution and havea healthier pet at the end of the year.

A New Year’s Resolutionby Charles Lloyd, DVM, Fairview Animal Hospital

Four Legs, Fur & Feathers! Four Legs, Fur & Feathers!

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Call 828 505-3440 or visit bwar.org

Animal HavenCall 299-1635 or animalhaven.org

CecilI am an 11-month-old male neutered GreatDane. I am full of energy and still growing.I weigh 95 pounds, am very smart, and lovemy toys, especially tug of war. I am good oncar rides and like other dogs. A fenced yardfor me would be great!

EddieEddie is a very small, older beagle who iscompletely adorable. He's still full of en-ergy, is house-trained, walks well on a leashand is ready to be your snuggly companion.Eddie would fit right into a calm home.

GizmoGizmo is a Chihuahua mix who isready to be yours. Consider givingthis cutie a home!

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the CauseA cool calendar created by Flying

Dogs Photography and Patton AvenuePet Company is available for $20 at theBWAR ReTail Store at 38 Glendale Av-enue in Asheville. Lots of other items arefor sale as well.

Calendars can also be purchased on-line at flyingdogsphotography.com andremember that 100% of the proceedsfrom the calendar and everything elsebenefits BWAR pets in need!

TinkerI am a senior gal with lots of energy. I

have a beautiful silver coat and look likea terrier. I weigh 19 pounds and gradu-ate from the New Leash on Life pro-gram this month. I love to go riding inthe car and cuddling in your lap.

It Takes a Village... from page 19

I am also extremely grateful to every-one I talked to — Laura, Brian, Celeste,Christine, Judy D, Elena the groomer,Ken Franks, Garrett, Gwen, Rick Harris,Hubert, Angie Hughs, Rich Kasey, EileenKennedy, the “lady with kids” and Mike.

Sadie was missing for ten days; on Sat-urday, December 7 at 5pm, she was foundwith the help of Marty, Crystal, Laurie andJason. They had been looking all after-noon. Her original owner Maggie hadcome to help look, and used one ofSadie’s old blankets to lure her into a cagewith the scent of home. It worked.

Marty saw Sadie by the trap. Maggiegot down on the ground. Sadie saw Mag-gie and ran to her; they laughed andhugged and rolled in the grass and every-one celebrated. I was on the phone withMarty when it happened. I was so over-come with relief and joy that I had to handthe phone to my husband. I told Maggiethat we would fly down and get Sadie.

The bittersweet part is that Maggiehad missed Sadie so much for those tendays that she decided to keep her. Iwanted her badly, but I am so very happythat Sadie is home with Maggie, safe andwarm and loved.

A Note from Julie:Thank you, Fairview, and everyone whohelped me find a missing dog. I will be for-ever grateful for your kindness. God blessyou all in the new year. You are a wonderfultown, full of wonderful people.


“There’s a Snowy Owl nearCape Hatteras.”The wordwent around the birdingsites on the internet likewildfire. The birding

world was aflutter with this incrediblesighting. Birders flew down to the coastin flocks, all looking to see this magnifi-cent white owl from the Arctic. But it’s an8-hour drive to the Outer Banks and I hadseen a couple of these magnificent Arcticbirds already this year. I was not in a hurryto hit the road for my third Snowy Owl.

That was late November and since thenat least 3 other owls have been reportedalong or near the North Carolina coast.Some have been easier to see than others,but I decided, maybe somewhat lazily, thatI would also leave these lost southboundbirds for the local coastal birders.

Snowy Owls are large white owls (re-member Hedwig in Harry Potter?) thatbreed in the Arctic tundra regions with acircumpolar distribution. In North Amer-ica they nest from Alaska to NorthernLabrador and winter far to the north ofthe Carolinas. Periodically they undergoan irruptive migration well to the southof their normal wintering range. In 2011they staged a major push into Washing-ton and Oregon on the West Coast, withup to 10 being seen at several coastal loca-tions. It was a photographer’s dream, withthese large very photogenic birds sittingaround on driftwood, pebble beaches, al-most always with a scenic coastal vista inthe background.

Back to North Carolina — about 20folks turned out for our December BeaverLake Bird Walk. It’s never a really excitingtime of the year, but we were happy watch-ing the regular gang of Tufted Titmiceand Golden-crowned Kinglets when aphone call came in.

“Snowy Owl near Brevard, NC.” thecaller could barely get the words out in acoherent fashion.

“What and where?” I quickly respondedas the folks on the walk looked incredu-lously at the expression on my face.

“The bird walk is over,” I told the groupwith a grin on my face, “and we are headingto Brevard to see the owl. Who’s coming?”

The Owl was sitting atop a large brushpile like a large Persian cat ignoring itsgrowing crowd of admirers. Camerasclicked, telescopes were focused andeveryone stared at this visitor from thenorth. I am not sure it was impressed andI think we even saw it yawn — a true Diva!

I think the farmer was far more sur-prised than the owl. More than 50 peoplecame to pay their respects the first dayalone and closer to 75 the following day.Even the local media started to pay atten-tion; WLOS ran a story and local papersscrambled for photos and stories about“our” owl. I hear her fame spread as far asUSA Today.

While all of this may seem nothingmore than a boost for bird conservationand public awareness of the birdingworld, it’s a very different story for “Tun-dra” (as our owl has now been christened)

and the other SnowyOwls well south oftheir breeding range.In truth, they don’twant to be here, andthey shouldn’t be.Their normal winter-ing range is typicallyalong the U.S./Cana-dian border withsmaller numbers mov-ing south along thecoasts. This year’s “ir-ruption” has been ex-traordinary, withhundreds of birds mi-grating south throughNewfoundland andinto Maine, New Yorkand New Jersey. At least one Snowy Owlhas also reached Bermuda.

This has all got to do with one thing —food. The Snowies may have had abumper breeding year this past summer,probably associated with an abundance oflemmings, their favored food, and the re-sulting “Class of 2013” has had to movesouth in search of food. They are young,inexperienced and prone to wander. Un-fortunately many of these young birdswill starve, unable to find enough food inunfamiliar surroundings, and this is whatnearly happened to our Snowy star. By theend of the first week she was too weak tofly and would have easily been killed by apredator. Thankfully a local rehabilitatorcame to the rescue, and Tundra is now

having plenty of R & R at a nearby spa.Snowy Owls are notoriously hard torehab, so we are all keeping our fingers(and toes) crossed that she will be healthyenough to be released as soon as possible.

For more information on Tundraplease contact us at the Asheville WildBirds Unlimited or go to the Blue RidgeNaturalist Network’s Facebook page.

Simon Thompson owns and operates his ownbirding tour company, Ventures Birding Tours.birdventures.com. He and Chris also own andoperate the Asheville Wild Birds UnlimitedStore. For more information on any of the bird-ing activities in the area, drop by the store tosay Hello or check the store website atasheville.wbu.com

FOR THE BIRDS............................................................................................................................................................by Simon Thompson

An Invasion to Remember: Snowy Owls 2013


Fairview Sharon UnitedMethodist Church OutreachPlanning Event Open to AllFairview Sharon United Methodist Church, 2

Laura Jackson Road, invites Fairview area churchesand concerned Fairview residents to an evening offellowship, prayer, and cooperative visioning as thechurch prepares to launch a new community out-reach ministry, “Community of Faith.” The event isplanned for Thursday, January 16, beginning at 6:30pm at the church, which is near the Food Lion shop-ping center.

This event is open to all, regardless of church mem-bership or denominational affiliation, and is intendedto discuss ways the community can work together tobetter serve our neighbors.

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Benefit Dinner & Raffle forDaniel Wallace

All are encouraged to save the date for a fundraisingspaghetti dinner and raffle to help defray medical costsfor former Fairview resident Daniel Wallace, who wasseverely injured in an accident in December.

The event will be held at the Fairview CommunityCenter on Saturday, February 22, 5:30–8:30 pm.A din-ner of spaghetti, bread, salad and dessert with water,tea or lemonade will be served for $5 a plate.

Raffle tickets will be on sale for a variety of prizesdonated to us by local businesses. Tickets are $2 each,$5 for 3 or $10 for 7.

Musical performances by several local musiciansare being planned as well. All proceeds will go toDaniel.

For more information please contact Katy Cicale [email protected].

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Market Outlook2014: Looks Like aGood Year for Stocks

In 2014, there may be more all-time highs seen inthe stock market and higher yields in the bond mar-ket as economic growth accelerates. Our forecast isfor stocks to potentially produce a total return in the10–15% range and bonds to end the year flat.

In the year ahead, we think portfolios are likelyto enjoy more independence from policymakersthan in 2013, when the markets and media seemedto obsess over policymakers’ actions both here andabroad. This could be seen throughout 2013, duringthe government shutdown and debt ceiling discus-sions, the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) mixed messages ontapering its aggressive bond-buying program, andthe bank bailout among many other examples.

In 2014, there are many reasons investors can re-turn to the basics of growing and preserving theirportfolios and spend less time gauging the actionsof policymakers, including:

• After two “clean” lifts to the debt ceiling since2011, which ensured any risk of default on Treas-ury obligations was avoided, we are unlikely tosee concessions in exchange for a third increasein 2014 — making a high-stakes fiscal battle un-likely.

• The Fed is likely to begin to taper its bond-pur-chase program, known as quantitative easing(QE), in the first half of 2014, signaling a com-mitment to reducing its presence in the marketsand transitioning to a post-QE environment.

The economy and markets’ becoming more inde-pendent of policymakers while growth accelerates islikely to bolster investor confidence in the reliabilityand sustainability of the investing environment.

Key components of our 2014 outlook:• Stronger U.S. economic growth accelerating to

about 3% in 2014 after three years of steady, butsluggish, 2% growth. Our above-consensus an-nual forecast is based upon many of the drags of2013 fading, including U.S. tax increases andspending cuts, the European recession, and ac-celerating growth from additional hiring andcapital spending by businesses.

• The stock market may produce a total return inthe low double digits (10–15%) as measured bythe S&P 500 Index. This forecast for a slightlyabove-average annual return is based on our ex-pectations for high single-digit earnings growthand a modest rise in the price-to-earnings ratio(PE).

• Bond market total returns are likely to be flat asyields rise, with the 10-year Treasury yield endingthe year at 3.25–3.75%. Our view of yields risingbeyond what the futures market has priced inwarns of the risk in longer-maturity bonds nowthat conditions have turned for the bond mar-ket. Our expectation for a 1% acceleration in U.S.GDP over the pace of 2013 suggests a similarmove for the bond market.

The primary risk to our outlook is that bettergrowth in the economy and profits does not develop.That risk is likely to be much more significant than thedistractions posed by Fed tapering and mid-term elec-tions. For 2014, we forecast a healthy investment envi-ronment in which to cultivate a growing portfolio.

Until next month, Happy New Year, Fairview!

Doug English CFP® is Carolinas Retirement Specialists. HisAsheville office is located at 37 Haywood St., Ste. 200,Asheville, NC 28801. For a detailed look at what’s anticipated for 2014, in-vestors can download Outlook 2014: The Investors Al-manac at www.carolinasretirementspecialists.com

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GUEST WRITER .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................by Janet Peterson

The Bees are Doing What?I love beekeeping.As a beekeeper, I get calls to capture

swarms out of trees. Often what peoplethink are honeybees swarming are yel-low jackets or hornets in a football-shaped nest hanging in a tree or builtinto a shrub. I don’t go on those calls, soI ask lots of questions before droppingeverything from my farm work to inves-tigate and maybe come home with some“free” bees. As the saying goes,“Swarmsin June are worth a silver spoon.”

This isn’t June but I got the call.In November, we had some really

cold weather (which causes the demiseof yellow jackets and hornets), then aweek of warm balmy days. A Fairviewcommunity member called to say thatfor the second week in a row, Waste Prowould not pick up the family garbagebecause of bees going in and out of theraccoon-ripped-open bags, which werenow restacked high above the lid. WouldI come get the bees? The homeowners

were leaving on vacationthe next day.

A little history: lastyear I picked up a swarmon this very same prop-erty about fifteen feet upin a tree. There is obvi-ously a beekeeper in thearea. Cell phone photosverified that they were,indeed, honey bees, notyellow jackets chowingdown on sweet syrupy re-fuse. Also, curiously, thebees had a white sub-stance attached to theirlegs. Pollen? My curios-ity was piqued. Thankyou for wanting to savethe bees!

When I got to the sitethat warm afternoonabout 4 pm, the home-owner didn’t have to

show me where to go. The smell of two-week-old garbage and the flurry of beeactivity all around led me to the side ofthe front yard.

They were honeybees all right, andthey were very busy, not minding me atall. I had my bee suit on and smoker tocalm them down. I began to take thebags out of the over-flowing trash recep-tacle one by one. About the fourth bagdown with a big gash in it was the jack-pot.

So, you know what it was? The honeybees, so thrilled to fly on that warm dayafter being cooped up shivering in a ballin their hives, had found a thrown-awaybag of white flour. They were silly withdelight in the substitute pollen-feelingflour ... rolling in it, acting drunk withpleasure, pausing to comb their fuzz,storing it in their pollen basket legs andflying back to their managed hives tostore it for their babies. You will see thesame thing if you have millet seed inyour bird feeder or the sawdust fromchainsaw work. Honeybees are attractedto the soft feel of pollen and its substi-tutes.

Now there is some protein in flour,but not the complex amino acids thatbees need from natural pollen to stimu-late brood-rearing in the colony. Pollenand nectar are what the brood is fed. Be-sides, winter is no time to raise babieswhen the honey stores are limited. Myconclusion was that these were bored

bees out to stretch and cleanse on abeautiful day with the added benny of abroken bag of flour.

Mystery solved...but not the problem.I shook the bees out of the bag, rebaggedthe garbage and ended up filling myToyota Highlander to carry it away.

Bees saved from a can of Raid. Theowner sure was glad.

Janet Peterson is a hobbyist beekeeper andproprietor of Cloud 9 Vacation Cabins andRentals in Fairview.


PICTURE PERFECT.................................................................................................................................................................................................. by Catherine Vibert

Setting Artistic Goals

January is a naturaltime to set goals for thecoming year. I always setlofty goals for myself,

pretty much setting myself up for fail-ure due to unrealistic expectations anda tendency to want to do just aboutanything and everything. Comingback down to earth, however, I realizethat the goals I have set for myself dopull me to a better place, year afteryear. And so it will be again this year.I’m all about setting personal andbusiness goals and practicing the artof self-discipline.

A camera is really a box of paints, ina way. The word photography is de-

rived from the Greek photos for “light”and graphos for “drawing.” It’s a way toproduce art, but using a machine thatcaptures light to do it. Our moderngeneration of instant cameras has ledmany astray into thinking a camera isjust a thing to capture pictures. Artfulphotography is about more than tak-ing pictures, it’s about seeing the lightand the effect of the light on your sub-ject, and the ability to set your camerato get a good rendition of that light.Like a painter, the photographer useslight, color, technique and some imag-ination to ‘make’ a picture, rather thanjust ‘take’ a snapshot.

I wonder how many cameras arepurchased by people withlofty goals, only to have thatexpensive camera find a placein a corner somewhere andgather dust? Everyone knowsthat old cliché: the only way toget to Carnegie Hall isthrough practice. But isn’t ittruly the way? To becomegood at anything one has todo it a whole lot. This is wheregoal setting in January comesin.

For some people a daily project mayjust be too much, but a weekly “Project52” might be perfect. There are onlineProject 52 groups on varying subjectson Google Plus and Flicker if you wantcamaraderie. Maybe you’ll want to do ablack and white project. Maybe you’ll goback to using film and get into dark-room developing. Maybe you’ll do crazycreative panoramas on your cell phone.There are a million maybes for everymind. Just turn one of those into a yesand go for it!

This year I am taking on two Proj-ect 52s to improve my technique andskills with my camera. One is a year-

long commercial photography men-torship that I’m very excited about.The other project is a creative artisticportrait project that will have variedfocuses from whimsical glamour tocharity work. Join me in setting per-sonal goals that will improve yourskills and ability to express yourselfcreatively via the medium of photog-raphy!

Catherine Vibert is a photographic portraitartist and commercial photographer andowner of Catherine Vibert Photography.She can be reached at 828-628-1927 orvia her website, catvibe.com.

Editor’s Note: We thought Cat’sself portrait was just too smashingto only print as a thumbnail;thought you might get some ideasto do your own.


Notes From the FBA KEEP IT LOCAL with 105 FBA MembersThe Fairview Business Association

(FBA) is a networking group for busi-nesses and people residing or doingbusiness in and around the Fairviewcommunity, designated as any area thatreceives the Fairview Town Crier in themail. Currently we have 105members.Meetings have proven to be a great re-source for networking with other mem-bers, which has translated into newbusiness. January’s Member Meeting:

The first FBA meeting of 2014 will beon Thursday, January 9 at 6 pm at HartHouse, 54 Fair Oaks Estates off of CaneCreek Road. Hart House is listed onVRBO (Vacation Rental By Owner) andis one of the properties maintained byincoming president, Mary Beth Led-ford’s Two Amazing Ladies.

Plans for 2014 will be discussed andany new ideas brought by membersgiven consideration. The “Keep It Local”packets will start going out later thismonth so be sure to bring 50 businesscards for Lisa Pelly if you haven’t already.

After the business meeting, a socialnetworking hour takes place. Pleasebring a snack and/or beverage to share.

Holiday Party The annual FBA Holiday Party was

enjoyed by over 100 members and guestsat the Inn at Wintersun on Monday, De-cember 9. Members brought side dishesand some desserts to add to the deliciousdinner catered by Bob Lund of MooseRidge Catering and donations by TheLocal Joint and Ruth & Ranshaw. In ad-dition to haveing a great night, FBAmembers brought some joy to quite a fewchildren with Toys for Tots donations. Welcome New Members:Cat Vibert, Catherine Vibert PhotographyJohn McDermott, Bola Furniture

Membership RenewalIf you haven’t renewed your member-

ship yet, now is the time. The grace pe-riod for renewal ends on January 31 atwhich time your information will beremoved from the website. Memberswho let their membership lapse will incura $10 service fee to reinstate their informa-tion on the website.You can renew onlineor at the upcoming member’s meeting.

New MembershipAnnual dues are $50 per business and

$25 for second business.

Accounting | BookkeepingPerry A. James, CPA, PC ................628-2000 Artisans Appalachian Designs ....................628-9994Natural Creations ............................628-2999Art / Dance / Music ClassesWillow Wisp Farm Studios ..............348-4732Banks & Financial PlanningAsheville Savings Bank ....................298-8711Edward Jones ....................................628-1546First Citizens Bank ............................628-1534Building/Maintenance ServicesAA Diamond Tile..............................450-3900All Seasons Heating & AC ............651-9998Aqua Pump Services ......................450-3900Asheville Home ImprovementServices ..............................................712-5030Cane Creek Concrete ......................230-3022Sunrise Sawmill ................................768-0120Business Services Covan Enterprises ............................298-8249Life Care Concierge ..........................676-1524Progressive Profit ..............................628-9021World Pay ............................................606-5119Cleaning ServicesTwo Amazing Ladies ................919 427-2706Steam Master Carpet &Upholstery Cleaners ......................628-9495Computer ServicesScobie.Net..........................................628-2354Contractors/Builders/Remodelers Appalachian Log Homes................628-3085Bee Ridge Electric ............................777-4676Bostic Builders ..................................606-6122Cool Mountain Construction ..........778-2742EnergyTech Builders ................919 427-2704Moose Ridge Design & Const. ......777-6466Vintage Remodeling ........................628-1988Dental | Health |Rehab CentersApex Brain Centers ..........................708-5274Echo Dental Lab ................................230-7813Fairview Chiropractic Center ........628-7800Intentional Wellness ................919 260-7214MAHEC Family Practiceat Cane Creek ..................................628-8250My Healing Cottage..........................713-9576Skyland Family Rehab Center ........277-5763 Visual Eyes Optometric ..................628-6700Western Carolina Physical Therapy ............................298-0492Education/InstructionAdvanced Edu. Tutoring Center ....628-2232Fairview Preschool ............................338-2073Freezer Fairy......................................699-5248Leap of Faith ChristianFamily Child Care Home ..............696-6226Equipment Rental & Repair ServicesCarolina Equipment Rental............628-3004Ed’s Small Engine Repair. ..............778-0496Electronic CigarettesMountain Vapure..............................280-7844Event PlanningTwo Gals Booking.............................450-5385Fitness/ExerciseKarakido Martial Arts ........................712-1288Furniture Custom DesignBola Furniture....................................299-7270Hair Salons/Beauty ServicesCreative Touch Salon ......................628-0401House Rentals – Short Term/VacationCloud 9 Relaxation Home ..............628-1758Greybeard Rentals............................669-1072Sabél Apartments ..............................232-1042

House Rentals ContinuedThe Cove at Fairview........................628-4967The Inn at WIntersun ......................628-9979InsuranceGloria Berlin Agency/Allstate ......298-2483Prime Time Solutions ......................628-3889Tammy Murphy Agency..................299-4522Transamerica......................................785-3778Landscaping/ExcavatingBeams Lawn & Landscape ............778-4282Blacksmith Landscaping ..................777-1901Graceful Design Gardens, LLC ........712-8147Ray’s Landscaping ..........................628-3309Fairview Landscaping ....................628-4080Marketing | Promotion | PrintingDelia Design ......................................279-8412 Live Local............................................338-9806Re.Solutions ........................................628-1422PostNet of Central Asheville ............298-1211 Markets | Farm Stores | CSAsCane Creek Asparagus & Co ..........628-1601Flying Cloud Farm ............................768-3348Hickory Nut Gap Meats ..................628-1027Trout Lily Market ..............................628-0402Troyer's Country Amish Blatz ..........280-2381Medical ServicesAmericare Pharmacy ........................628-3121 MonumentsMartin Monuments ..........................298-8282NewspaperFairview Town Crier ..........................628-1422Non-profitsFood for Fairview ..............................628-4322New Hopes, New Beginnings ........277-3812The Lord's Acre Hunger Garden ..628-3688Pet Services & Supplies Fairview Kennels ..............................628-1997Shampoodles Salon ........................628-9807Specialized K9 Services ................290-0923Woof In The Woods............................222-2222PhotographyCatherine Vibert Photography ......628-1927Lynniepics ..................................727-743-5378Real Estate Commercial ServicesFairview Business Park......................713-5773Real Estate Sales1 Source Realty ..................................338.0525Cool Mountain Realty ....................628-3088GreyBeard Realty..............................298-1540Sandy Blair, Realtor/Broker ..........768-4585The Buyer’s Agent ............................210-4663Restaurants | Confections | CateringCookie Couple ....................................707-1879Mountain Mojo Coffee Shop ..........209-8621The Local Joint ..................................338-0469Subway Fairview & Reynolds ........628-3080Saw MillsCloud 9 Portable Sawmill................272-5507Sunrise Sawmill..................................277-0120 Spas | MassageFairview Massage & Bodywork ......216-1364Mia Elias Massage............................279-4788Mountain Oasis Day Spa ..............628-2060Serenity Wellness ..............................237-1987StorageFairview Huntley Storage ..............298-3040VeterinariansCane Creek Animal Clinic..............628-9908Cedar Ridge Animal Hospital and Equine Services........................575-2430Fairview Animal Hospital................628-3557Water FiltrationFilters For Tap......................................775-9174Website DesignHandwoven Webs ............................367-6424

Interested in Joining the Fairview Business Association?Join at FairviewBusiness.com

or send $50 to FBA, PO Box 2251, Fairview, NC 28730 FBA Voicemail — 828 338-9628 Leave message and we will return call promptly.

2014 FBA OfficersPresident — Mary Beth Ledford |

[email protected] President — Lisa Pelly | [email protected] | Sandie Rhodes | [email protected] — Marie Forney | Membership — Frank Dixon | [email protected] — Bill Scobie | [email protected] — Stephanie Sizemore | [email protected] Coordinator — Tim Wilson

Holiday Party 2013

When you start out in your career, you’reprobably not thinking much about re-tirement. At this point, your picture of a“retirement lifestyle” may be, at best,

hazy, hidden as it is behind a veil of experiences you’veyet to encounter. But as you move through the years,your view of retirement comes into clearer and closerfocus — and this vision will have a big impact on yoursavings and investment strategies.

Consequently, to create and implement thosestrategies effectively, you’ll need to define your retire-ment vision by identifying its various parts. Here aresome to consider:Travel— If you’re like many people, you may dream oftraveling during your retirement. But what does “travel”mean to you? Do you envision taking a cruise or an in-ternational trip every year? Or is your idea of travel justa short jaunt to a popular destination, such as a lake orthe mountains or the beach? The difference in costs be-tween global and U.S.-based travel can be enormous, soyou’ll need to define your goals and estimate your ex-penses.Second home — Once you retire, you’ll have to makesome housing-related decisions. Should you sell yourhome and “downsize”? Or do you want to keep your cur-rent residence and possibly purchase a second home,such as a condominium, in another part of the country?Obviously, you’ll need to factor in these choices whenyou think about how to invest before you retire and howto manage your withdrawals from your 401(k), IRA andother accounts during your retirement. Volunteer activities— You might think that your vol-unteer activities during retirement won’t affect your fi-nances much. But if you are particularly ambitious, andyour volunteerism involves travel, renting space, pur-

chasing equipment and so on, you might be looking atsome large cash outlays. Furthermore, if you host peopleat your house, you may be incurring some types of lia-bility risk, which you might need to address through ap-propriate insurance coverage.Hobbies— During your working years, you may pursueyour hobbies always with the thought that you can de-vote a lot more time to them after you retire. However,expanded hobby activities may involve expanded costs.For example, if you’re good with cars, you might decideto invest in that foreign sports car of which you’vedreamed. Or, if you’re fascinated by genealogy, perhapsyou’ll start traveling to places once inhabited by your an-cestors. These types of activities can be expensive, soyou’ll have to evaluate your saving, spending and invest-ing habits to determine how to accommodate your in-creased expenditures on your hobbies.Second career— Many people look forward to retiringfrom one career so they can start another — opening asmall business, consulting or even taking a part-timejob. Clearly, if you were to start your own business, someexpenses would be involved, so you’ll have to plan forthem. Even if you become a consultant or work parttime, you could incur various costs, including travel.And, in relation to these types of work, you may alsohave insurance and health care issues to address.

By identifying the various components of your re-tirement vision, and estimating their respective costs,you can make those saving, spending and investmentchoices that can help you work toward your retirementdream.

Written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward JonesFinancial Advisor, Stephen Herbert, who can be reached at628-1546 or [email protected].


FINANCIAL FOCUS ............................................................Provided by Stephen Herbert

What’s Your Vision of Retirement?

FAIRVIEW REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS, NOVEMBER 2013

HIGH LOW AVERAGE

12 New Homes Listed $2,850,000 $69,000 $525,05311 Homes Sold $630,000 $31,000 $309,03621 New Land Listed $329,000 $30,000 $91,18610 Land Parcels Sold $220,000 $40,000 $107,650

Information provided is courtesy of 1 Source Realtyand was obtained from the WNC Regional MLS.

Joe Chandler can be reached at 338-0525.

Dandelion Grassroots DeliOpens at Trout Lily

Fairview foodies will be delighted with the ex-panded menu at Trout Lily’s new Dandelion Grass-roots Deli. Over a dozen imaginative sandwich comboswill be in rotation, accompanied by daily soup choicesand many gluten-free options.

Fairview Chiropractic Supports The Lord’s Acre

Thanks to Dr.Reilly and all whocontributed tothis $1,000 dona-tion to The Lord'sAcre. On behalfof the entire TLAboard, we aredeeply gratefulfor Fairview Chi-ropractic's beliefwith us that the growing, sharing and eating of food to-gether can heal and empower communities.

BUSINESS ..................................................


The top priority of the past legislativesession was to help improve our state’seconomy so businesses start creatingmore jobs in NC. There were threemajor bills enacted by the General As-sembly that will help businesses, smalland large, grow, invest and create jobs:

regulatory reform, transportation reform and tax re-form will make NC a better place to create jobs. Tax re-form was enacted by House Bill 998, entitled “TaxSimplification and Reduction Act” which passed withbipartisan support. Transportation reform was en-acted by House Bill 817, of which I was honored to bea sponsor, entitled “Strategic Transportation Invest-ments” passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.Regulatory reform was enacted by House Bill 74, enti-tled “Regulatory Reform Act of 2013”, which passedwith bipartisan support as well.

Tax reform lowers the top marginal personal in-come tax rate in NC from 7.75%, which was the highestin the Southeast, to 5.75%. The corporate income taxrate was reduced from 6.9% to 5%, and it may go lowerto 3% if certain tax revenue targets are met. The non-partisan Tax Foundation says this tax reform will makeour state’s tax structure go from the 7th worst in the na-tion to the 17th best. Our state will never have the low-est tax rates in the nation, but having the highest taxrates in the Southeast was costing NC far too many jobsand businesses. According to the nonpartisan GeneralAssembly legislative staff, businesses and families at allincome levels will see a tax cut. This bill raised the stan-dard deduction to $15,000 per family and raised thechild tax credit as well. The bill expanded the sales taxto some services and eliminated some targeted tax cred-its so there will be sufficient revenue to fund state serv-ices in the future. General Assembly legislative staffpredicts even with these tax cuts, NC will grow state taxrevenue by over $3 billion over the next five years.

Transportation reform changes the 25-year-oldformula for funding transportation projects in NC.This bill takes the politics out of the process and al-lows NCDOT to make the decisions on which proj-ects to fund based on data and not politicalinfluence. Forty percent of all funding will be allo-cated based on a statewide competition of all proj-ects, thirty percent based on regions and thirtypercent based on the highway division. BuncombeCounty is located in highway Division 13, which alsoincludes Burke, Madison, Yancey, McDowell andRutherford Counties. One of the clearest winners ofthis funding formula will be the Interstate 26 Con-nector project in Asheville, which includes the JeffBowen Bridge. Completion of this project is one ofmy top legislative priorities during my service in theGeneral Assembly.

Regulatory reform was an omnibus bill that ad-dressed many regulations needing to be updated ordiscarded. Perhaps the greatest change requires peri-odic review of regulations promulgated by adminis-trative agencies. Often rules are added withoutfurther review to see if the rules are accomplishing thedesired purpose with an appropriate cost/benefit tothe state, business, and individuals. While there maybe some disagreement from environmental advo-cates, I believe that this bill will not harm our envi-ronment, but will ensure the rules are working as theyshould.

As part of National Education Week, I was hon-ored to visit Owen Middle School, Owen HighSchool, and West Buncombe Elementary School.When I’m not in Raleigh I always appreciate the op-portunity to visit our schools and see the outstandingwork of our teachers and staff. Buncombe CountySchools rank near the top of the state in academicachievement, even though they rank around 85th inthe state in funding per student.

It was a tremendous privilege to attend Dr. BillyGraham’s 95th birthday celebration. The theme of hisbirthday was “My Hope,” a message in which Dr. Gra-ham told the story of the Cross of Calvary.

On behalf of Governor Pat McCrory, I was hon-ored to present the “Order of the Long Leaf Pine” tooutgoing Town of Black Mountain Mayor CarlBartlett. Mayor Bartlett has been elected Mayor eighttimes, Vice Mayor twice, and has served our commu-nity in many ways. In addition to his public service,Mayor Bartlett has served as the “Voice of the OwenHigh School Warhorses” as the announcer at theirfootball games for many years.

I was also privileged to present the “Order of theLong Leaf Pine” to Eva Jones with the BuncombeCounty District Attorney’s Office. Ms. Jones hasserved District Attorney Ron Moore for his entireterm in office as well as for previous BuncombeCounty District Attorney Ron Brown. She is retiringfrom the office and will be greatly missed to all in theCourt House!

Finally, I would like to congratulate the ACReynolds Rockets football team on overcoming muchadversity and for their success this season.

I hope you and your family are having a blessedNew Year! Please contact me anytime and I am hon-ored to serve you in the NC House of Representatives.

RALEIGH REPORT ..........................................................................................................by Nathan Ramsey, District 115 NC House of Representatives

Contact:NC House of Representatives16 West Jones Street, Room 1004,Raleigh NC 27601-1096Email: [email protected]: NCleg.net | NCHouse115.comOffice: 919 733-5746 | Cell: 828 768-3216

I’ve begun signing using that word lately. Grateful. Signing my letters and emailswith it. Feeling it sinking in.

We’re dependent. And our lives are full of gifts. Food is one such gift. We rarelythink of it that way unless someone makes us a meal, but the fact that the food we eatstarts with sunlight and soil and is transformed into something tasty, nutritious andthat helps us connect with others is pretty amazing if you consider it. This year, the Lord’s Acre is grateful for hundreds of people and groups who haveloved the garden well. We’d like to mention just a few of them here. Even if you’re notlisted here, we know who you are and we thank you. Community Foundation of WNC gave us a grant to dig a well and build a walk-incooler in 2014. All Souls Episcopal also contributed to funding the walk-in-cooler.Water and storage space are key essentials, so this is a particularly valuable gift.The New FREE Market has the McNair family to thank; they have been our hosts forthis first market season. The FREE (Share the Harvest) Market grew out of your an-swers to the 2011 Community Survey. We hope you will join us in sharing your excessgarden produce in 2014. New Ground: Board member Franklin Sides, using neighbor June Grimes’ tractor,opened up a new field next to the main garden this year. This allowed more room forfield crops and is one reason our harvest tally was high even though the heavy rainsrotted many of our crops. Organic Grower’s School, Come to the Table, Wild Goose Festival and others al-lowed us to join the local dialog on issues surrounding food and community. Warren Wilson College actively, continually and deeply supports the work we do indozens of ways. Angie Parker and Covenant Community in Reynoldsdistributed our excess produceand acted as our parade committee. Food For Fairview and Fairview Welcome Table supported us and were awesomepartners. Local author Fred Bahnson wrote about The Lord’s Acre in his first book, MakingPeace with the Land. His second book, Soil & Sacrament (2013), gives TLA an entire chap-ter. Through Fred, we’ve also become connected to Duke and Wake Forest as well aswriters and readers all across the country. New Van, New Logo: The Rathburn House donated a fifteen-passenger van to TheLord’s Acre, and a grant from Mission allowed us to make minor repairs and haveour logo added. The new logo was designed and donated by a friend of the garden,Michelle Kinnear.

Interns: Our talented 2013 interns can take the credit for our production of 8.8 tonsof food in a year when rain rotted so many crops. We’re indebted to Erica, Carson,Charlie, Jason and Claire.The Town Crier:Sandie and Crew are true heroes, keeping our community connected. Jackie Dobrinskawrote and won grants and created a beautiful medicinal herb thatwill serve people in need. YOU.There are hundreds more of you. Thank you for digging, donating, attendingour fundraisers, spreading the word, bringing groups, hiring the interns, lending yourtalents and passions, bringing your kids, growing food, challenging us and helpingbring us all together.


THE LORD’S ACRE .................................................................................................................................................................by Susan Sides, Garden Director

Grateful

The Lord’s Acre Volunteer TimesWednesday evenings, 5–7 pm — Potluck afterwards. Bring a dish to share, Tuesdaymornings from 9–12, and Friday mornings from 7:30 till noon. Rain or cold maychange this agenda.Two to Three more worknights and potlucks: To get on our Wednesday Worknight& Potluck email list, email us at the [email protected] and put Potluck List inthe subject line. This way you’ll be notified if work night is cancelled due to weatherand you can sign up for potluck if you wish. Drop in Tours:Tuesday mornings on the hour and half hour. Bring yourself, yourfamily, your friends to visit the garden. We’re at 26 Joe Jenkins Road in Fairview.


Winter is upon us andwhat could be better thanwarming ourselves by acozy wood fire with goodfriends gathered around

the hearth, sharing a cup of hot ciderwhile the fragrance of freshly roastingchestnuts fills the living room of ourcabin with its earthy essence. Chestnutsare a delicacy for me; their rich, sweet,nutty flavor is unique and so deliciouswhether roasted in the ancient traditionof our ancestors or caramelized andglazed as prepared by the French in finedesserts and pastries.

Over the holidays, we stopped into the

newly opened Highlands Craft Guildshowcase in Biltmore Village, which coin-cided fortuitously with the Dickens festi-val. It was a raw, cold, drizzly day, withfreezing rain in the forecast. To our sur-prise, we parked by a kiosk where a manwas roasting chestnuts for sale. We or-dered a small bag and chatted with himabout these treasures of the forest. Hegave us a brochure on the AmericanChestnut Foundation in Asheville, wherethey are working hard to find ways to re-store the American chestnut trees into itsnative habitat. What a delight to peelopen these plump, ebony brown jewels,perfectly charred and steaming hot. It waslike eating ambrosia, especially given theweather, and we both marveled at the richflavor. These chestnuts were the perfectholiday gift.

Chestnuts are an integral part of ourculture’s history in this country as well asin Europe and Asia, where they are stillprized and utilized as a highly nutritiousfood source. When the colonists arrivedhere, chestnut trees were gargantuan andplentiful. It is hard to fathom the realityof our former eastern forests where up toone fourth of all the forest trees werechestnuts, many of which were well over100 feet tall and up to 17 feet around incircumference! On some of the NorthCarolina ridge tops, 7 out of 10 trees werein the Chestnut family.

Since mature giant chestnut treesrarely developed any branches for 50 feet,the trees earned the nickname of “Red-woods of the East.” Each year in spring-time, white catkins would appear likestarbursts on all the branches, and ahuman could stand on one of our ridgetops in North Carolina and witness anocean of white chestnut flowers dancingin the breeze. Every autumn, there wouldbe a huge harvest of edible chestnuts onthe forest floor. The trees had many other

uses as well; they were prized for lumber,tannins, food and medicine.

The deadly fungus Cryphonectria para-sitica originated in Asia, but since Asiaticchestnuts had evolved with the blight overmillennia, they were not much affected.However, the American cousins had noresistance to the foreign disease, and onceintroduced the spores spread like wildfire,moving swiftly from tree to tree, carriedon the wind, through animals and birds,traveling at rates of 50 miles a yearthrough the Appalachian mountains anddecimating Chestnut populationsthroughout New England and all ofNorth America within decades.

The blight wasfirst discovered in1904 in New Yorkand first seen inNorth Carolina in1912. By the 20’s,75% of the conti-nents chestnut treeswere infected andwithin another 20years, over 4 billionchestnut trees weredead and the forestlandscapes of NorthAmerica werechanged forever.

The exceptionsto this fatal cata-

clysmic blight were a few isolated treesand giant stumps that survived, providingseedbeds for new growth that would even-tually succumb to the blight as the treesmatured. However, essential genetic ma-terial was preserved, and scientists havebeen working diligently to find ways tomake it possible for the American chest-nut to survive the blight and be wovenback into our rich ecosystem.

Chestnuts are in the same family asbeech trees, but they should not be con-fused with commonly found “HorseChestnuts” which are totally unrelatedbotanically though their fruit bears re-semblance to the edible chestnuts, Theseare large, with a rich ebony color and alsovery poisonous to humans and many an-imals.

The American chestnut (Castanea den-tate) has often been called Chinquapin;this family has 6 different species thatdwelt on this continent. There is also theEuropean or Sweet chestnut, Chinese andJapanese chestnuts, none of which aresusceptible to the blight; many of thechestnuts we now find here in the USA areChinese chestnuts, which are smaller treesbut still produce abundant harvests oftheir spiny porcupine fruits every fall.

Many times on hikes along the BlueRidge, I have spotted small survivingchestnut trees in flower, and they are gor-geous. It is always a revelation and sur-prise, and seeing these small trees triggersa vision of what it must have been like be-fore the blight. One can still find ghostlygiant stumps in the forest with their silverwood and ancient presence whispering tous about the times when Chestnuts dom-inated our forests.

Thanks to the dedication of so manypeople, there is hope that someday in ourlives the forests will once again benefitfrom the presence of living Americanchestnut trees.

WILD EDIBLES........................................................by Roger Klinger

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Asheville Savings Bank ..800-222-3230Asheville Stone....................628-ROCKASN Masonry..........................779-6854Bank of America,Kenny Tyler ............................398-1133B&B Tree Service ..................778-1987Beams Lawn & Landscape ..778-4282Blair, Sandy Realtor ..............768-4585Blue Ridge Service Center......338-0497Cane Creek Animal Clinic ....628-9908Cane Creek Concrete ............230-3022Carolina Retirement Specialists..............................398-2802Cedar Ridge Animal Hospital and Equine Services ............575-2430Child Care Network................628-9243Classic Event Rental ................255-2230Control Specialties

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The Allen Burton Team ......329-8400Life Care Concierge................676-1524Local Joint................................338-0469Looking Glass Creamery ......458-0088

MAHEC Family Health............628-8250Mark Fields & Company ........777-0452Marvins Tree Service..............628-1353McCrary Stone ........................649-2008McKinney Insurance ..............684-5020Mitch Contracting ..................252-0694Moose Ridge Construction ..777-6466My Healing Cottage ..............713-9576Nachos & Beer ........................298-2280PerPetual Care Pet Sitters ....684-5146Perry James, CPA ..................628-2000 Post Net of Asheville ..............298-1211Scobie.net ................................628-2354Shampoodles ..........................628-9807Smokey & the Pig ..................242-1624Southern Style ........................628-9596State Farm,

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COMMUNITy CENTERS:Cane Creek CC ......................628-2276Fairview CC ............................338-9005Spring Mountain CC..............628-2363Upper Hickory Nut Gorge ....625-0264

MISCELLANEOUS:Fairview Business Assoc. ....338-9628Fairview Library ....................250-6484Fairview Town Crier ..............628-1422Food for Fairview ..................628-4322The Lord’s Acre Garden ......628-3688Meals on Wheels....................253-5286


JUST PERSONAL............................................................

Happy11th

Birthday

The Garrison Family Celebrates Five Generations

Celebrity Sighting in Fairview

Spring MountainConcealed Weapon Class— Plans are being made for early 2014; please call Garyat 231-8328 if interested.

Monthly Meeting — Tuesday, January 7, 6:30 pm. Meetings are the first Tuesdayof the month unless noted otherwise.Spring Mountain Bee — Tuesday, January 14, 10 am–2 pm. The Bee meets thesecond Tuesday of each month unless otherwise noted. Bring your own projectthis month. Visitors are welcome. Call Kay Jenkins, 628-7900, or Kim Thomp-son, 628-1938. We want to encourage all ages and assure everyone that it’s reallyeasy to learn to quilt. Yoga with Sabrina— Monday and Thursday evenings, 6:15–7:30 pm & Wednesdaymornings 8–9:30 am.$5–$8 donation per class accepted. Call 243-8432 for detailsor email [email protected] to be included in email announce-ments for cancellations due to weather, road conditions or special circum-stances.

Berry Pickers’ Jam —Tuesdays, 7 pm. Fairview’s old-timey and bluegrass com-munity jam and sing-along band. All instruments and levels of musicianshipare welcome, from beginners to seasoned players.

NOTE: For general information, contact Maria Horton, President, 778-0279.To be included by email about Spring Mountain Community Center updates, op-portunities and news send an email to Carolyn at [email protected]. To postitems in this column, call Ruth Atkins at 628-1625.

To Rent the Spring Mountain Community Center

Call Bruce at 280-9533. Leave your phone number and you will be notified if thedate is available to rent.Spring Mountain, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, thanks the community for yourcontinued support. Donations may be sent to: Spring Mountain Community Club, PO Box73, Fairview, North Carolina 28730.

FAIRVIEW1357 Charlotte Highway in Fairview

To Rent fairview community centerFor calendar, visit fairviewcommunitycenter. blogspot. com, or leave amessage at 338-9005 or email fairviewcommunitycenter@gmail. com

upper hickory nut gorgeHighway 74A in Gerton

Community Covered Dish— Tuesday, January 21, 6:30 pm. Program: Explor-ing North Carolina. Host Tom Earnhardt, who spent many summer days ofhis boyhood in Gerton, will be featured in a DVD of one of the shows. Afterthe show, we will have a discussion about the topic. Remember to bringcanned food for the food banks.

To Rent HNG COMMUNITY CENTER Please call or email Margaret Whitt, UHNGCC at 828 625-0264

or email her at [email protected]

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or Alzheimer patient, realizing your genetic potential can be daunting. In fact, thereal-life implications can be tremendous and far-reaching. For example, how wouldit affect your job potential, your insurance, your relationships, and so on? This pow-erful understanding of our fundamental makeup can be a double-edged sword.

At MAHEC, we are trying to be innovators as family physicians in terms of beingsensitive to these issues and referring you to some of our fabulous specialists, suchas Dr. Bill Allen, a local geneticist. This spring, Dr. Allen and I will help to sponsora genetics conference for primary care providers to help elevate the community’sunderstanding of the enhancement of our own radar for genetic disorders and theopportunities for treatment. It is a rapidly evolving field, both biologically and eth-ically. Our goal is to be both good clinicians and good shepherds for those of youwho are confronting these questions.

L-R: Stanley Garrison, Baby Ryley, Lauren Sherlin, Aliene Bass Garrison andMikki Garrison Sherlin

Innkeeper Nina Bradburyreports that the Inn at Wintersun had some extraspecial guests over theChristmas holiday. Holly-wood actor Jordan Belfiand his girlfriend Broadwayactress Morgan Marcellrented the Inn privately fora week with family in ourbeautiful mountains. Jordan Belfi was on Grey'sAnatomy, Entourage and in the Hallmark ChannelChristmas Movie “SnowBride”. Morgan has choreo-graphed and danced in several Broadway shows.We know they had to lovethe Inn and Wintersunproperty and trust theyalso loved our little community of Fairview.

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FOR SALEBRAND NEW STILL IN BOxES... RedCore American Comfort Infrared fireplacewith mantel, 32” wide x 12” deep x 27” high.Glass door with award-winning flame pat-tern. Two room size setting heats up to1,000 sf. 1500 watt, 120 volts, remote con-trol thermostat. $250. Call 628-4827.BETTER THAN WOODS FIRELOGS EnviBlocks are densified logs made 100% hard-wood shavings. They burn hotter, longerand cleaner. No bugs, dirt or mold. $4.00per 20 lb. bundle. Call 828-702-8961 or visitwww.mountainvapure.com$$MAINE LOBSTER FOR LESS$$ Go towww.thelobsterclubwnc.com. Live Mainelobster and tails. Join the Club. No fees. Nominimum order. Or call Michael at 695-6555.WOOD-FIRED BRICk OvENS custombuilt. Each an individual unique piece de-signed for your space. Local in Gerton, con-tact August Breton 912 704-8330. Visitwww.formconstruction.com

HOUSE FOR SALE3 BR, 2 BATH HOME for sale in Fairview at195 Miller Road. Please see MLS listing#549297 at French Broad River Realty orcall 575-2337. $139,000

FOR RENT – GOLF CARTSTRACTORS ON THE CREEk NOWRENTS Golf Carts for $49/day plus deliv-ery/pickup. 3139 Cane Creek Rd., Fairview.Call 828-628-0735

SERVICES FOR HIRECOMPUTER TECHSkILLED COMPUTER TECH Desktop\Laptop\Networks, hardware and softwareissues, AdWare\Spyware\Viruses. $40 mostfixes. Call Bo 828 628-5686 or send anemail to [email protected]

CONSTRUCTION/BLDG/REMODELINGSMALL CONSTRUCTION/REPAIR. Expe-rienced retired builder available. Carpentry,remodeling, repair, concrete work, smallbarns, porches & gazebos. Steve Norris,777-7816, [email protected] IMPROvEMENT Does your houseneed a face lift or just a nip and tuck? 30years of exp. in home improvement. Reliableand insured. Call Charlie at 828 989-4477.

HOME CARE / CNAATTN: RETIREES! HOME AID, LAUNDRY,LIGHT HOUSKEEPING, CHORES, DR.APPTS., ERRANDS, ETC. Insured, 24 hrschedule, excellent references, reasonablerates. Call Ellen, 628-0189.

CNA AvAILABLE FOR PRIvATE DUTY, In-Home Care. CPR, Hospice Certified. 15years exp. with excellent references. Flex.hours, 24-hour shifts available. Depend-able, non-smoker. Call 828 400-1699 cell.

HOUSE CLEANING TRADITIONAL OR GREEN CLEANING.Experienced, references available. Flexibledays and hours. Call Ana at 828 582-1252.

LAWN / yARD / CLEARINGCOMPLETE LAWN MAINTENANCE Fallcleanup, Mowing, Pruning, Mulching, Clear-ing Overgrowth, Tree Removal. Call 628-1777 or 242-4444.

LAWN / yARD / CLEARINGCONTINUEDPRAYTOR’S LANDSCAPING GeneralLandscaping, Mulching, Plantings, RockWork, We also do pressure washing. CallMatt Praytor 828 674-4339 or [email protected]

NOTARyNOTARY & TITLE SERvICE. Notary of allkinds. I can help with most motor vehicle titleand registration problems. Call 828 691-6700.

PET / HOUSE SITTINGCREATURE COMFORTS PET & HOUSESITTING SERvICE Experienced, reli-able, and loving pet care provided in yourhome while you're away. Available forlong term house sitting. Excellent refs.828 458.4927.

PIANO TUNINGPIANO TUNING by Frazier Worth. $90 formost pianos. Call 768-2694.

CLASSES / PROGRAMSExERCISE/DANCE CLASSESNEW ZUMBA, PILATES AND BALANCE &STRENGTH CLASSES IN FAIRvIEW. Ex-perienced instructors, all levels. Morning,late afternoon and early evening classes.At 1334 Charlotte Highway (enter at back ofPrudential Building). All classes are onehour unless otherwise noted. Pilates isMonday and Wednesday at 4:30 pm. Bal-ance & Strength is Wednesday at 8:30 am(45 minute class). Zumba is Monday at 5:30pm, Tuesday at 8 am, Wednesday at 5:30pm and Friday at 4:30 pm. Zumba Toning isThursday at 8 am. Purchase Pilates classesat a drop in rate or multi-class discount. Allother classes can be mixed and matchedafter purchasing a multi-class punch card(10 classes for $45, 20 classes for $80), or$6 per drop in rate. Call 708-7347 for info orvisit Facebook.com/fitnessfirstfairview.

YOGA, RELAxATION AND MEDITATION withTami Zoeller. An intimate, fully equipped studioat 90 Taylor Road. Call 628-1070 for the classschedule and any questions you may have. $10per class.

ExERCISE/DANCE CLASSESZUMBA AT ECCLESIA BAPTIST, Old FortRoad. Excited to announce our new in-structor, Josh McClure! Classes are funand provide a great aerobic workout. Tues-day and Thursday, 7 pm, only $3.00 perclass. Call Josh at 333-1993 or checkoutzumbafitness@ecclesiabaptistchurch.

NOTICES #2 FUEL OIL WANTED. I can remove #2fuel oil from your home tank or at work. Call828-628-2731 or 828-779-7272.

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