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Grant for family violence agency is not ‘good news’

Church distributes school supplies

A Burnsville Police cruiser sits outside Yancey County Farm Bureau on East Main Street last Thursday afternoon after officers arrested Chris Hughes of Burnsville after they reported catching the former Farm Bureau employee inside the building earlier that day. Officers said Hughes had safecracking tools with him when he was captured inside the building.

Early childhood education takes a hit in state funding

Is delay in broadband

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Police: Man was safecracking

By Jonathan AustinYancey County News

Police arrested a Burnsville man early last Thursday morning on several felony charges after finding him inside the Farm Bureau office on East Main Street with safecracking tools, Police Chief Brian Buchanan said.

Christopher Vance Hughes, 33, of Stillhouse Lane, Burnsville was arrested inside the insurance agency, Buchanan said. Hughes was charged with breaking

and entering, safecracking, and possession of burglary tools, all of which are felonies.

The arrest came after other area businesses were hit in the middle of the night and contents of their safes stolen. Buchanan said authorities are investigating any connections between Hughes and the other break ins, but caution business owners that there is a strong possibility some or all of the other break-ins involved other individuals.

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By Jonathan AustinYancey County News

Country Cablevision has told Yancey County Economic Deve lopment Commiss ion Director Wanda Proffitt that it “has received authority to move forward with the broadband/fiber optic project” after months of delay.

The announcement came with delivery of components of poured concrete headends, which are master structures for receiving the signals for processing and distribution over the fiber optic system. Dean Russell, the project manager for the broadband project, told Proffitt in an email that the headend is “a concrete vault that will be used to transition the fiber from the pole” into a building which will be built beginning in September.

“Core drillings of site have been completed and pouring of concrete for building will begin probably after Labor Day,” Proffitt wrote in an email to community leaders and the media.

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The Cougars lost their opener to Erwin last week, and will host a surprisingly strong 1A Rosman team at home this Friday. See complete football coverage inside!

By Paul ClarkFor Carolina Public Press

There’s no bundle of joy in the newest North Carolina budget for early childhood education, program administrators in Western North Carolina say.

For the second year in a row, two highly regarded state programs – Smart Start and the NC Pre-Kindergarten Program – will operate on reduced budgets, meaning fewer children served.

Administrators fear that progress

made ensuring the well-being and school-readiness of North Carolina’s youngest residents will unravel as a result.

The two program budget reductions were part of sweeping cuts the N.C. General Assembly made throughout state government last year when it adopted the state’s $19.7 billion budget. The Republican-written spending plan, which the N.C. State Board of Education has said would do

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Family Violence Coalition facing a hard road

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I wanted to take the time to thank everyone who donates to The Family Violence Coalition of Yancey County, Inc. – donations of money, time, and projects, as well as items to our thrift store, The Crazy Daisy Thrift Boutique.

Shopping at our store is also contributing to the solvency of our agency, so we thank you for your support! New store hours are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., extended hours on Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and new Saturday hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

We are pleased to have received more than $54,000 from the Governor’s Crime Commission, but I need to explain that this VOCA grant - Victims of Crime Act Grant – is one that we receive yearly and is used for Basic Shelter Services. We are very pleased to receive these funds – federal dollars that are given to the states for crime victim’s services. We could not keep our shelter operational without these funds. I do not want anyone to be misled, however, that this grant was a new windfall of funding for the FVC, when, in fact, we have had some grant funds cut for the current fiscal year, FY 2012-2013 and will be hurting.

The VOCA grant is a reimbursement grant. We spend the money monthly for certain line items in our budget and then are reimbursed a month or so later. We have to have the funds in our checking account in order to make payroll, pay the electric bills, etc. Our FY during any given year starts on July 1, however, the State of N.C. might not start sending us any money until mid September, mid-October, and several years ago it was Nov. 18 before we received any installment payments from the state grant funders. Our agency does not have a cushion of funds in the bank, so during this time of the FY I struggle and stress over making sure everyone gets paid.

Times are rough for folks all over. During these bleak economic years private,

non-profits are hit especially hard. With a downturn in the economy, with families hurting over financial stress comes more domestic violence. The FVC of Yancey County is the domestic violence and sexual assault agency for Yancey County. We provide a crisis shelter for victims of domestic violence/sexual assault/rape and their children. Our doors are open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. To remain operational 24/7 is costly. Crisis and violence takes no holiday. When the crisis line rings, a paid and trained FVC employee answers that phone, and if someone needs to arrive at the shelter at 3 a.m. on a Saturday night when it is 20 degrees outside on a January night we are there for that client and her family. We shelter some families for one or two nights, but some have stayed as long as five or six months while waiting on housing to become available and while working on gaining independence, safety, and stability.

During last FY we served over 130 women and children in shelter, and provided services to over 600 more individuals, to include men, women, and children. Our crisis line was answered over 3,000 times. We have each shift covered and operate on as few employees as we can in an effort to conserve funds, but yet still meet state certification requirements.

The State of North Carolina has 24 pages of expectations for us to meet with Domestic Violence certifications and another 24 pages to meet the Sexual Assault program certifications. We are certified via the N.C. Council for Women to provide these services to this county. All counties with DV and SA agencies receive basic grants via the N.C. Council for Women to remain operational. We receive three grants from them yearly. We also receive a grant called the DSS-FVPS grant = Family Violence Prevention Services Grant, and we had been receiving TANF-DV funds yearly.

I learned last week that our DSS-FVP grant had been cut by $6,400 and that TANF-DV funds had been cut out for the entire State of North Carolina. This means our budget for FY 2012-2013 has been cut by $19,400. This is a significant amount of money for our agency. The TANF-DV funds were used yearly to help our clients leaving a DV situation back into a home or an apartment – first month’s rent and electric deposit. Those funds are gone.

About three years ago I had predicted that the state would start moving in the direction of a Metropolitan Hubs method of client service delivery. This is fancy Social Worker Speak which translates to: Our rural clients would have to travel to a shelter in the nearest city to receive shelter/services. The move has started towards taking funds which normally were distributed to all counties equally to distributing the funds based on population size.

This means that urban/metropolitan areas will receive the bulk of the funding. We have already seen the cut with our DSS-FVP grant. Normally we received $25,000 from this grant. Last week I learned it had been reduced to $18,600. This was done based

on population size.Bear in mind that metropolitan areas/

cities have more people to donate to the programs and these agencies like ours in Asheville, Raleigh, or Charlotte can have fund-raisers and raise a lot more money than we can here in a more impoverished area of the state and one with less people to ask for funding assistance. I hate to report, that, sadly, my prediction of the state funders moving in this direction is more likely than not coming true. We still have some time to meet with our state legislators and after the November elections will be better prepared to know who are the movers and shakers we need to meet with and argue for the rural counties to still receive the funding we need. I will keep you informed the more I learn and we, the executive directors of mountain counties, meet, organize, and develop a plan of action. We are all in this together. Domestic violence and sexual assault are social ills that belong to all of us – not just limited to our agency to fix.

If you would like to help ensure that our funds remain in the rural counties, then please let me know. We need your support. The FVC also has an outreach education/public awareness program in order to increase awareness and educate the community about domestic violence/sexual assault/rape - to help break cycles of violence. This letter is a piece of that outreach. We all need to be informed so that we can help keep our domestic violence/sexual assault agency/shelter in our community.

Samantha L. Phipps, executive directorthe FVC of yancey County, Inc.

(828) 678-3436P.O. Box 602, Burnsville, N.C. 28714

In an effort to help the Family Violence Coalition of yancey County, the Yancey County News will give the FVC $10 from the cost of each new subscription purchased between now and Sept. 21.If you’ve been thinking of subscribing, then now is the time to do it! Get a subscription now for a friend out of town, or for that student away at school!Use the coupon on page 13; for each new subscription, we will give $10 to the Family Violence Coalition of yancey County.

From the front“irreparable harm” to schools and students, was formulated to cut taxes and spending.

“When our data comes out in the fall, I think we are going to see some of the progress we’ve made start declining,” said Sonia Gironda, executive director of Smart Start of Henderson County. “We’re going to see more dental care problems because we had to scale our dental care program back by more than half.”

“We’re losing ground,” said Janice Edgerton, executive director of the Region A Partnership for Children, the Smart Start partnership serving Clay, Cherokee, Haywood, Graham, Jackson, Macon and Swain counties, as well as the Qualla Boundary.

Fewer children now in Pre-KIn its 2011 session, the General Assembly

cut the budgets of Smart Start and NC Pre-K (then called More at Four) by 20 percent.

The cuts affected a lot of children. Counted in the 2010 Census were 632,040 N.C. boys and girls younger than 5. Among them, 260,480 in March 2011 were enrolled in regulated childcare centers and family childcare homes, according to the N.C. Division of Child Development and Early Education. The state subsidized childcare for 84,832 of the children in 2010.

The state has many reasons for doing so. Safe, affordable childcare makes parents better, more dependable workers, according to a study by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. Family issue absences cost the state economy $2.75 billion annually, far more than the $670 million in state 2011-2012 early childhood education appropriations, the study concluded.

Early childhood education also saves taxpayers money by reducing the number of juvenile delinquents, prisoners and welfare recipients, the study states.

Another study cited by the Division of Child Development and Early Education last October stated that economically disadvantaged children enrolled in NC Pre-K did better in reading and math than similar children not enrolled in the program.

NC Pre-K is designed to provide “high-quality” pre-kindergarten educational programs for 4-year-olds deemed “at risk” because of health, developmental progress, family income, education, housing stability or English proficiency, according to program criteria. In June 2011, the legislature cut $32 million out of its funding.

This year NC Pre-K asked for $25 million to be restored. Legislators declined to do so in the $20.2 billion budget they passed over Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto.

Once serving nearly 31,000 children, NC Pre-K now serves nearly 25,000 on a budget of about $128 million, according to Lori Walston, a spokeswoman for the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the program.

Some programs reorganizingSmart Start is the state’s early

education initiative meant to ensure children enter kindergarten healthy and ready to learn. Funded through state and federal programs, as well as through corporate grants, it is administered by The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., which oversees the work of 76 local Smart Start partnerships. The local partners contract with local agencies to provide services such as nutrition and literacy training.

During this year’s legislative

session, the group asked the General Assembly to restore half of $36 million cut from the program last year. Denied, Smart Start’s budget remains the same this year as last – $151 million.

But because legislators have increased the minimum percentage of Smart Start money that each partnership has to apply to childcare subsidies – from 30 to 39 percent – other Smart Start programs are suffering.

The changes were severe enough that the McDowell County partnership, which originally stood on its own, felt it could no longer, prompting it to merge with Rutherford and Polk counties in July to form the Partnership for Children of the Foothills.

“It’s kind of like a double-edged sword,” said Barry Gold, executive director of the Partnership for Children of the Foothills. Increasing the money for childcare subsidies is “a good thing” because it allows more parents to work, he said. “But you rob Peter to pay Paul,” he added, “and someone gets hurt.”

Cuts to services“We had been facing budget cuts the last

seven or eight years, so we had gotten used to cutting programs back to the bare minimum,” said Caroline Rodier, former director of the McDowell partnership and now assistant director of the merged partnership. “So when we got the 20 percent cut and the requirement for more towards (childcare) subsidies, it was a double whammy.”

It also cut its First Steps and Healthy Start home-visiting programs. It also stopped funding the popular McSmiles mobile preschool program, which sent teachers in old school buses into rural areas for children to attend short preschool classes. McDowell County Schools, the partnership’s program partner, now funds the program entirely.

For years, the Rutherford-Polk partnership had a Parents As Teachers program that was a national training model for partnership professionals. The 25-year-old program sent trained educators into homes of low-income, high-risk new parents to show them the importance of reading to their children and helping them identify shapes and colors.

But the partnership had to give up that program last year, Gold said.

It also lost a program that let it pay a portion of health insurance for childcare workers, a perk that helped stabilize the childcare workforce

and bring stability to many children’s lives. The program reduced worker turnover from 50 to 20 percent annually, Gold said.

The mandated increase in childcare subsidies means Region A Partnership for Children will draw money away from a program that augments wages for childcare professionals who are advancing their careers and from programs that help families at family resource centers, Edgerton, the organization’s executive director said.

“People are out there who are so isolated, with no knowledge of how to be a parent,” she said. “You think, shouldn’t everyone already know about these things? But people that are really dirt poor, they’ve said that they just need this kind of help. And that the people at the family resource centers welcome them and respect them.”

“We all understand that this is a very challenging economic time,” Gold said. “No one expects all these dollars to flow to us. But to get such a huge cut and not get anything restored, it’s just very difficult.” He paused and added, “We’re going to make it work, and we’re going to do some very good things.”

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WNC Regional Livestock Center, Canton, NCReport for Monday Aug 20, 2012Cattle Receipts: 273 Last Week: 226 Last Year: 283 Slaughter cattle trended mostly steady. Feeder cattle trended 2.00 to 4.00.Slaughter cows made up 11 percent of the offering, slaughter bulls 3 percent, replacement cows 3 percent, other cows 0 percent, and feeders 82 percent. The feeder supply included 39 percent steers, 33 percent heifers, and 27 percent bulls. Near 40 percent of the run weighed over 600 lbs. (Figures in parentheses are weighted average weights and prices for each category)

Feeder Steers: Medium and Large 1-2 300-325 lbs (313) 171.00-186.00 (178.20); 360-395 lbs (380) 159.00-174.00 (168.90); 440-440 lbs (440) 125.00 (125.00); 460-490 lbs (476) 135.00-145.00 (142.18); 500-520 lbs (507) 128.00-144.00 (139.38); 550-585 lbs (569) 128.00-140.00 (135.92); 610-642 lbs (633) 126.00-134.00 (130.33); 655-695 lbs (681) 126.00-130.00 (128.49); 715-745 lbs (728) 111.00-127.00 (122.33); 780-780 lbs (780) 120.00 (120.00); 818-818 lbs (818) 118.50 (118.50); 873-873 lbs (873) 116.00 (116.00). Small 1-2 530-530 lbs (530) 117.00 (117.00). Medium and Large 3 330-330 lbs (330) 130.00 (130.00); 370-370 lbs (370) 151.00 (151.00); 500-500 lbs (500) 125.00 (125.00); 575-585 lbs (580) 118.00-123.00 (120.48); 625-625 lbs (625) 121.00 (121.00); 650-670 lbs (660) 93.00-113.00 (103.15). Holstein Large 3 300-300 lbs (300) 75.00 (75.00); 370-380 lbs (375) 65.00-66.00 (65.49); 410-410 lbs (410) 65.00 (65.00); 460-495 lbs (478) 65.00-100.00 (83.14); 550-590 lbs (573) 95.00-105.00 (101.13); 2465-2465 lbs (2465) 50.00 (50.00).

Feeder Heifers: Medium and Large 1-2 280-280 lbs (280) 157.50 (157.50); 365-365 lbs (365) 110.00-116.00 (113.00); 440-445 lbs (443) 120.00-131.00 (125.47); 455-495 lbs (478) 110.00-129.00 (123.18); 505-542 lbs (529) 116.00-127.00 (122.81); 555-595 lbs (569) 120.00-136.00 (124.07); 600-642 lbs (624) 110.00-124.00 (118.85); 655-698 lbs (683) 107.00-118.00 (115.63); 725-740 lbs (735) 117.00-121.00 (118.32). Small 1-2 370-370 lbs (370) 116.00 (116.00); 525-525 lbs (525) 95.00 (95.00); 540-540 lbs full (540) 115.00 (115.00); 590-590 lbs (590) 110.00 (110.00).

Feeder Bulls: Medium and Large 1-2 400-430 lbs (420) 140.00-153.00 (146.58); 450-495 lbs (479) 135.00-146.00 (140.69); 500-545 lbs (527) 108.00-129.00 (120.83); 555-595 lbs (576) 107.50-122.50 (117.24); 600-640 lbs (618) 110.00-123.00 (116.70); 650-685 lbs (667) 111.00-115.00 (112.66); 705-735 lbs (723) 100.00-108.00 (104.28); 865-865 lbs (865) 98.00 (98.00); 995-995 lbs (995) 104.00 (104.00). Small 1-2 480-480 lbs (480) 110.00 (110.00). Medium and Large 3 425-430 lbs (428) 114.00-120.00 (117.02); 490-490 lbs (490) 110.00 (110.00).

Bred Cows: Medium and Large 1-2 Young 975-1185 lbs (1063) 999.00-1275.00 per head 7-9 months bred (1124.47). Medium and Large 1-2 Middle Aged 885-885 lbs (885) 650.00 per head 4-6 months bred (650.00); 1655-1655 lbs (1655) 999.00-1225.00 per head 4-6 months bred (1225.00). 1175-1175 lbs (1175) 999.00-1000.00 per head 7-9 months bred (1000.00).

Slaughter Cows: Breaker 70-80 percent lean 1125-1125 lbs (1125) 79.50 (79.50); 1310-1310 lbs high dressing (1310) 82.00 (82.00); 1450-1450 lbs (1450) 77.00 (77.00); 1410-1675 lbs high dressing (1565) 83.00-89.50 (85.47). Boner 80-85 percent lean 990-1255 lbs (1123) 70.00-79.50 (75.27); 1060-1385 lbs high dressing (1231) 80.00-86.50 (83.63); 1410-1550 lbs (1460) 76.00-78.00 (76.83). Lean 85-90 percent lean 920-1240 lbs (1079) 62.00-67.00 (64.41); 1050-1050 lbs low dressing (1050) 50.00 (50.00).

Other Cows: Medium and Large 1-2 Young 665-665 lbs (665) 77.50 (77.50).

Slaughter Bulls: Yield Grade 1-2 1360-1360 lbs (1360) 96.50 (96.50); 1030-1030 lbs high dressing (1030) 101.00 (101.00); 1175-1175 lbs low dressing (1175) 87.00 (87.00); 2040-2040 lbs (2040) 95.00 (95.00); 1920-2090 lbs high dressing (2027) 100.50-104.50 (102.22).

Cows/Calf Pairs: (2) Small 1 and 2 820 lbs middle age cows with 150 lbs calves 1150.00 per pair. Medium 1 and 2 960 lbs middle age cows with 175 lbs calves 1125.00 per pair.

Baby Calves, per head: Holsteins 40.00-80.00.

Goats, per head: (15) Slaughter and Replacement Classes: Kids: Selection 1 40-60 lbs 80.00, 60-80 lbs 85.00-95.00. Does/Nannies: Selection 1 100-140 lbs 112.50; Selection 2 70-100 lbs 75.00. Wethers: Selection 1 70-100 lbs 110.00, 100-150 lbs 120.00. Bucks/Billies: Selection 1 70-100 lbs 97.50-100.00, 100-150 lbs 155.00.

Sheep, per head: (8) Slaughter lambs: Good 20-60 lbs 85.00; Choice & Prime 60-100 lbs 100.00.

Source: NC Dept of Ag-USDA Market News Service, Raleigh, NC 919-707-3156 www.ams.usda.gov/lsmnpubsRA_LS152.txt

Regional Market ReportsSTATE FARMERS MARKET: Farmers Wholesale: Beans, Round Green (25 pound box) 30 ; Beets (25 pound bag) 20 ; Blackberries (flat) 23 ; Blueberries (flat) 20 -22 ; Cabbage Pointed Head and Round Green (50 pound crate) 12 -15 ; Corn, white or yellow (4 ½ dozen crate) 15 , (5 dozen bag) 15 ; Cucumbers, Long Green (3/4 bushel) 18 , Pickling (3/4 bushel) 20 -28 ; Eggplant (1/2 bushel) 15 -16 ; Grapes, Muscadine (flat) 28 ; Okra (25 pound box) 14 -18 ; Potatoes, Red or White (1 bushel) 20 -25 ; Sweet Potatoes (40 pound box) 12 -15 -22 ; Peaches (1/2 bushel) 12 -15 ; Peas (1 1/9 bushel) 15 -22 ; Peanuts (30 pound bag) 35 ; Pepper, Bell (1 1/9 bushel) 18 -22 ; Squash, Yellow (1/2 bushel) 12 , (3/4 bushel) 20 , Zucchini

(1/2 bushel box) 12 , (3/4 bushel) 20 ; Tomatoes, slicing (25 pound box) 8 -14 ; Tomatoes, German Johnson (25 pound box) 30 ; Tomatoes, Grape (12 pint flat) 15 ; Tomatoes, Cherry (12 pint flat) 20 ; Tomatoes, Roma (25 pound box) 14 -15 ; Watermelons (each) 1 -3.50 (bin) 90 -120 . Wholesale Dealer Price: Apples (traypack carton 100 count) WA Red Delicious 38.65-39 , Golden Delicious 37 -47 , WA Granny Smith 34 -39.50, WA Gala 32 -36 , WA Fuji 38 -41 , WA Pink Lady 38 -41.50; Asparagus (11 pound carton) 38.65-42.95; Bananas (40 pound carton) 21.50-23 ; Beans, Round Green (1 1/9 bushel carton) 21.95-22.95, Pole (1 1/9 bushel) 24 -32 ; Beets (25 pound sack) 15.45-21.15; Blueberries (flat 12 1-pint cups) 22 -25 ; Broccoli (carton 14s) 20.35-23.50; Cabbage (50 pound carton) 14.35-16 ; Cantaloupe (case, 12 count) 19.95-21.85; Carrots (50 pound sack) 22.65-32.15; Cauliflower (carton 12s) 17.95-22 ; Cherries (16 pound box) 48 ; Celery (carton 30s) 22.65-29 ; Cilantro (carton 30s) 18.65-19.50; Cucumbers, Long Green (40 pound carton) 21 -23 , Pickles (carton 40 pound) 32 -35 ; Eggplant (25 pound carton) 14 -15 ; Grapes, Red Seedless (18 pound carton) 24.50-26 , White Seedless 24.50-26 , Black Seedless 24.50-26 , Red Globe 29 ; Grapefruit (40 pound carton) 35.50; Greens, Collard (bushel carton/loose 24s) 10 , Kale (carton/bunched 24s) 10.55-14.15; Turnips, topped 11.85-14.65; Honeydews (carton 5s) 29 ; Kiwi (carton 117s) 12.15-13.15; Lettuce, Iceberg (carton 24s, wrapped) 26.50-28.25, Greenleaf (carton 24s) 22 -24 , Romaine (carton 24s) 26 -27.50; Onions, Yellow (50 pound sack) Jumbo-23 -27.55, White (25 pound sack) 14 -16 , Red (25 pound sack) 15 -22.50, Green (carton 24s) 14.65-19.65, Sweet Onions (40 pound carton) 22 -25 ; Peaches, Yellow/White Flesh (1/2 bushel carton) 24 ; Peanuts, Green (35 pound bag) 53 -69 ; Pears, Bartlett (16 pound carton) 34 ; Peppers, Bell Type Green (1 1/9 bushel carton) 17.35-20, Red (11 pound carton) 25 -32.50, Yellow (11 pound carton) 29 ; Potatoes (50 pound carton) Red size A 14 -18.65, Red Size B 25 -28 , White size A 14.35-17.15, Russet ID 19.35-23.95; Radishes (30 6-ounce film bags) 12.50-14.35; Plums, Red (28 pound carton) 27

; Squash, Yellow Crookneck (3/4 bushel carton) 19.95-26 , Zucchini (1/2 bushel carton) 18 -21 ; Strawberries CA (flat 8 1-quart containers) 16.95-23.35; Sweet Potatoes, Orange (40 pound carton) 16 -21.45, White (40 pound carton) 20 -20.75; Tomatoes, Vine-Ripened extra-large (25 pound carton) 19 -20 ; Tomatoes, Cherry (flat 12 1-pint containers) 19.25-20.75; Roma (25 pound carton) 18 -19 ; Grape (flat 12 1-pint containers) 18 -20 ; Turnips, topped (25 pound film bag) 14.35-22.15; Watermelon (bin) 125 .

WESTERN N.C. FARMERS’ MARKET: (Wholesale Prices – Asheville) Apples (traypack carton) Red Delicious 36 -38 , Golden Delicious 36 -38 , (bushel) Local, Gala, Mutsu, 20 -24 ; Bananas (40 pound box) 19.50-20 ; Beans (bushel) Snaps 28 , Halfrunners 28 ; Broccoli (1/2 bushel basket) 12 , (carton) 16 -17.75; Cabbage (50 pound carton/crate) 11 -12.75; Cantaloupes (carton 9-12 count) 16 -21 , (bin 120-140 count) 180 -200 ; Cauliflower (carton) 20 -21.50; Citrus: Lemons (cartons 95 count) 29.50-30 , (165 count) 29.50-30 ; Corn (bag) Bi-Color, & White 14 -16 ; Cucumbers, Long Green (1 1/9 bushel) 15.75-16 , Pickling (1 1/9 bushel crate) 28 -30 ; Grapes, Red and White Seedless (18 pound carton) 24 -25 ; Lettuce, Iceberg (carton) 21 -22 , Green Leaf 22 -22.75, Romaine 26 -28 ; Okra (1/2 bushel) 15 -18 ; Onions (50 pound bag) Yellow Jumbo 20 -24 ; Peaches (1/2 bushel basket) Big Red, China Pearl, Flaming Prince 16 -18 ; Bell Pepper (1 1/9 Bushel carton) large and extra large 13 -15 ; Potatoes (50 pound bag) White 11.50-19 , Red 12.75-22 , Russet 12.50-17 ; Squash (3/4 bushel)#1 Yellow Crookneck 19 -24.50, (1/2 bushel) Zucchini #1 16 -16.75; Sweet Potatoes (40 pound box) Red or Orange #2 12 -15 ; Tomatoes, Vine-ripe (25 pound box) extra large and larger 10 -12 , medium 8 , Green 12 -15 , Heirlooms (bushel basket) 45 -50 ; Turnips (25 pound sack) 13.75; Watermelons (each) 3.50-6.50, (bin 35/40 count) Seedless 160 -180 .N.C. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES (Shipping Point FOB): Western North CarolinaBeans: Demand moderate. Market Round Green Type higher, Pole Type about steady. Bushel crates Round Green Type 13.35-14.00, Pole Type 17.35-22.00. Cucumbers: Demand moderate. Eggplant: Demand moderate. Market medium slightly lower, fair quality about steady. 1 1/9 bushel cartons medium 10.00-11.35, fair quality 6.00-7.35. Peppers, Bell Type: Demand moderate. Market about steadY. 1 1/9 bushel cartons Green jumbo 9.00-12.35 mostly 12.00-12.35, extra large 10.00-12.35, fair quality 7.00-8.35 mostly 8.00-8.35 large 8.00-9.35 mostly 9.00-9.35 medium 8.00-8.35. Squash: Demand fairly light. Market about steady. Yellow Straightneck small 14.00-15.35, medium 12.00-13.35. 3/4 bushel cartons/crates Yellow Crookneck small 19.35-20.00, medium 13.00-13.35. Tomatoes: Demand moderate. Market about steady. Extra services included. 25 pound cartons loose Vine Ripes U.S. Comb or Better jumbo 7.95-11.95 mostly 8.95-10.95 extra large 7.95-10.95 mostly 9.95-10.95, large 7.95-10.95 mostly 8.95-10.95. Tomatoes, Grape Type: Demand moderate. Market about steady. Extra services included. Flats 12 1-pint containers with lids 9.95-10.95.

Aug 16, 2012 Dept of Ag Market NewsPowell Livestock Market, Smithfield Goat and Sheep Auction Report Receipts: Goats: 219 Last Sales: Goats: 229Sheep: 107 Sheep: 107Prices are per head, weights estimated.

S l a u g h t e r a n d Replacement Classes: Kids: Selection 1 under 20 lbs 20.00-26.00, 20-40 lbs 25.00-60.00, 40-60 lbs 62.50-87.500, 60-80 lbs 85.00-112.50; Selection 2 20-40 lbs 25.00-30.00, 40-60 lbs ,47.50-55.00, 60-80 lbs 62.50.Yearlings: Selection 1 60-80 lbs 82.50-117.50, 80-100 lbs 115.00-122.50, 100-150 lbs 122.50-132.50.Does/Nannies: Selection 1 50-70 lbs 65.00-80.00, 70-100 lbs 80.00-95.00, 100-140 lbs 95.00-112.50; Selection 2 50-70 lbs 45.00-60.00, 70-100 lbs 65.00-75.00; Selection 3 50-70 lbs 27.50.Wethers: Selection 1 70-100 lbs 127.50, 125.00-150.00 lbs 130.00-162.50.Bucks/Billies: Selection 1 70-100 lbs 130.00, 100-150 lbs 130.00-145.00, 150-250 lbs 160.00-197.50; Selection 2 100-150 lbs 100.00.Sheep, per head: Lambs: Choice & Prime 20-60 lbs 37.50-72.50, 60-100 lbs 74.00-120.00,

Which markets offer Yancey farmers the best return on their investment? Should they head west, east or south? Agriculture and food industries accounted for $29,057,488 in Yancey County income in 2000, or 7.77 percent of the total county income. Livestock, poultry, and their products accounted for 23 percent of the total agricultural market. So this list recounts the prices in the last week at regional farm markets.

8/13/12 Tennessee Livestock Producers Graded Goat and Sheep Sale,Columbia, TN. Receipts: 1044 (655 Goats; 389 Sheep) Last Sale 930Next Sale August 27, 2012. (Second and fourth Monday of each

month)

Goats sold per hundred weight (cwt) unless otherwise noted, weights,actual or estimated.

Slaughter Classes: KidsSelection 125-35 lbs 36-50 lbs 200.0051-65 lbs 180.00-189.0066-80 lbs 169.50-180.0081-95 lbs 150.00

Selection 225-35 lbs 185.00-186.0036-50 lbs 183.00-200.0051-65 lbs 172.00-181.0066-80 lbs 158.00-161.00

81-90 lbs

Selection 325-35 lbs 162.00-176.00 36-50 lbs 167.00-187.0051-65 lbs 164.00-170.0066-80 lbs 149.00

Yearlings Selection 2-363-110 lbs 117.00-160.00 Slaughter Bucks/BilliesAll Wgts 91.50-113.00

Slaughter Nannies/DoesAll wgts 68-120 lbs 75.75-140.00 140-160 lbs 71.00-93.00

Kids Feeders Selection 325-40 lbs 132.00-159.00 SHEEPSlaughter Lambs-Includes all breeds, sold per hundred weight (cwt).

Choice and Prime 40-60 lbs 167.50-175.00Good 153.50-170.50

Choice and Prime 61-80 lbs 139.00-170.00, mostly 152.25-158.00Good 148.00-168.00Choice and Prime 81-100 lbs 131.00-171.00, mostly 132.50-138.00Good 135.00 Choice and Prime 100-120 lbs 120.00-132.00 Good Choice and Prime 120-150 lbs 112.50-117.00 Good Slaughter Ewes Utility and Good:All wgts 70.00-120.00

Slaughter Rams:All Wgts Not well tested

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Obituaries Mary Atlas Edwards

Mary Atlas Edwards, 85, of Burnsville, passed away peacefully Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, at Brookside Rehabilitation & Care. A native of Yancey County, she was a daughter of the late Walter and Pansy Robinson Edwards of the Mine Fork Community. She was also preceded in death by brothers Jack and Avery Edwards. Mary was a retired employee of Baxter Healthcare in Marion. Until her declining health she attended Unity Baptist Church. She enjoyed lawn work, her flower garden and spending time on her porch.

Surviving are her children: James Laws and wife, Aileen, of Newdale, Sally Ray and husband, Phillip, of Micaville, and Mattie Angel of Burnsville; grandchildren: Janie Martin and husband, Anthony, of Oxford, Ala., Terry Jones and wife, Roycene, of Green Mountain, Jeremiah Laws of Newdale and Bethany Grindstaff and husband, Craig, of Bakersville; two step-granddaughters: Nancy and Glenna Ray of Burnsville; great-grandchildren: Chesney Grindstaff, Madison Laws, Nathan, Samuel and Dalton Jones and Kansas and Jacob Blunt; and step-great-grandchildren Cody and Cy Ray.

Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday in Bailey Hill Cemetery. Revs. Bobby Silvers and Randy Laws will officiate.

The family will receive friends from 1:30 until 2:30 p.m. Friday at Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home.

Walter J. Rein Walter Rein passed away Monday,

August 20, 2012, at Mission St. Joseph hospital with his loving wife at his bedside.

Preceding him in death were his parents, Frank and Bessie Rein, and his older sister, Margaret Jones. Surviving are his wife of 55 years, Janell Rein; daughters: Sarah Claybrook and Mary Rhines; sister and husband: Retta and Chuck Folsom; brother and wife: John and Cindy Rein; five grandchildren: Ronnie Arnold, B. J. Rhines, Josh Rhines, Adria Claybrook, David Claybrook; and one great grandchild, Armani Anderson.

Walter celebrated life and the universe, and as most of his friends know, he loved humor.

He has a Master of Divinity degree from

Vanderbilt. He began his adult life as a minister and later worked at a series of other occupations, including teacher, insurance agent, farmer, carpenter, copywriter and tax collector. Walter published six books, two chapbooks and a comedy monologue, and a seventh book is in process of publication.

A celebration of life will be at Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 25. Anyone who is unable to attend but would like to participate in this sharing time, please email your thoughts to Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home at hbfh@holcombebrothers.com and it will be read at the celebration.

Flowers will be accepted, or contributions may be made to any of the following as a charitable gift: The Williamson Fund Lovelights at Cancer Care of WNC, 445 Biltmore Avenue, Suite 100, Asheville, NC 28801; Duke University Health System, Division of Hematology/Oncology, DUMC 3810, Durham, NC 27710, for hematology/oncology research; The Janell and Walter Rein Endowment for Hospice at West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation, Jackson, TN; Walter J. Rein and Janell Laman Rein Scholarship Fund at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Benton McKinney Benton McKinney, 92, of Hwy 261,

Bakersville, passed away Aug. 19, 2012, at his home. He was a native of Mitchell County and the son of the late William Martin and Bessie Byrd McKinney.

He was an Army Air Corps veteran, having served during World War II. During his service he received the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, the Distinguished Unit Badge and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was retired as the director of WAMY Community Action.

He was a member of Bakersville Baptist Church and Bakersville Masonic Lodge #357 AF&AM.

Survivors include his wife, Marie Hobson McKinney, of the home; three sons: Dan Peterson and wife, Tam, of Marion, Ben McKinney and wife, Marcia, and Patrick “Pat” McKinney, all of Bakersville, two sisters, Willie Ray, of Erwin, Tenn., and Mildred Rivers, of Johnson City, Tenn., four grandchildren; Matthew Peterson, Mark Peterson, Ryan Peterson and wife, Jannell, and Ava Marie McKinney; three great grandchildren: Alex Peterson, Ansley Peterson, and Alexis Peterson; and special friend Charles Hobson.

He was preceded in death by an infant sister Helen McKinney and a sister, Louise Garland.

Funeral was Wednesday at Bakersville Baptist Church with Billy Stewart, Larry Greene and Dr. Keith Kuhne officiating. Interment followed at Bakersville Memorial Cemetery with Bakersville Masonic Lodge #357 AF&AM conducting Masonic graveside rites, and the North Carolina Honor Guard providing graveside military honors.

Gay ThomasonGay Thomason, 68, of Burnsville, died

Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, at his home. A native of Yancey County, he was a son of the late Otis and Helen Ledford Thomason.

He was preceded in death by a brother, James Thomason. He was an Army veteran.

Surviving are his wife of 46 years, Joyce Duckett Thomason; four sons: David Thomason and wife, Christine, of Milwaukee, Wisc., Chris Thomason and wife, Rebekah; Danny Thomason and wife, Dawn, and Donald Thomason and Melissa Coleman, all of Burnsville, nine grandchildren, one great-granddaughter; three sisters: Ruth Austin of Barnardsville, Eloise White of Maggie Valley and Revonda Davis of Asheville; and three brothers: Mack Thomason, Guy Thomason and Buck Thomason, all of Burnsville.

Funeral service was Sunday in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. The Revs. Todd Robinson and Arnold Buchanan officiated. Burial was in the Ledford Atkins Cemetery.

Madie Hoilman Madie Farmer Hoilman, 86, of Mine

Creek Road, Bakersville, passed away Aug. 16, 2012 at Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville, Tenn. Born in Ashburn, Ga., she was the daughter of the late George Dewey and Ida Florence Farmer.

She was a member of Mine Creek Baptist Church. She retired from the Mitchell County Public School System, where she worked as a baker.

Survivors include her daughter, Nancy Hoilman Vinson, and husband, Don E. Vinson of Knoxville, Tenn.; a sister, Jeweline Farmer Manderson of Birmingham, Ala., and granddaughter Marla Lea Vinson, of Knoxville, Tenn.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack Lawrence Hoilman; a sister, Myrtle Farmer McDonald; and a brother, Grady M. Farmer. Memorials may be made to Mine Creek Baptist Church or charity of choice.

Donna Harrison ChrisawnDonna Harrison Chrisawn, 72, of the

South Toe Community, died Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. A native of Yancey County, she was a daughter of the late Lloyd and Elna Westall Harrison, and the wife of Jimmy D. Chrisawn, who passed away in 2000. She was also preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Edwin Bennett. Donna was a member of Mt. Mitchell Baptist Church and loved to quilt. One of her quilts is proudly displayed in the Smithsonian.

Surviving are two daughters: Judy Chrisawn of Rock Creek and Denise Pellien and husband, Mark, of Weston, W. Va.; a son, the Rev. Jimmy R. Chrisawn and wife, Karie, of Rock Springs, Wyo.; three sisters: Doris Padgett and husband, Kurt, of Morganton, Kathy Weaver and husband, Jake, of Asheville and Mona Bennett of Burnsville; two brothers: Danny Harrison and wife, Eula, of Jonas Ridge and Ted Harrison and wife, Phyllis, of Marion; six grandchildren: Vickie Chrisawn, Maggie Griffin, Taft Brigmon, Kristina Pellien, Aaron Pellien and Lauren Pellien; two great-grandchildren: Trinity Chrisawn and Nicholas Griffin; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral was Tuesday at Mt. Mitchell Baptist Church. Burial followed in the Robinson Cemetery.

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Bee Log Elementary hosts geocaching ‘bear hunt’

On Tuesday Aug. 14, parents and students at Bee Log Elementary participated in a very special event hosted by the staff of Bee Log Elementary School. During this event parents and students worked together to participate in a geocaching “Bear Hunt”. Devices such as iPods and GPS units were used to help locate specific points along the hunt in order to capture ‘The Big Bear.’ Parent/student teams used iPods

with QR reader apps to help scan and determine clues along the trek. Once students found ‘The Big Bear’ they then “captured” the image of the bear with their iPod. This event provided a wonderful opportunity for parents to interact with their child while using 21st century technology tools to enhance learning.

Throughout the evening parents also met with teachers who provided them with information regarding

the Title 1 program, as well as information on the upcoming changes with the new Common Core curriculum. Parents were provided with tips and strategies to help their child become successful learners in the areas of reading and math.

Bee Log Elementary would like to send a special thank you to the following individuals: James Pate for creating and coordinating the event. Patrick

Salvia and The Hilltop Restaurant for providing food items for the hotdog dinner; Nelda Phillips and Sharyl Haggerman for providing GPS units obtained through their PRISM grant, as well as helping teams complete the “hunt” during the event. Additional GPS units were on loan from Appalachian State University’s Be Active Partnership Program.

Mars Hill College welcomed a record-setting student body that was 7 percent larger than last year at this time, and nearly 20 percent higher than two years ago.

The 1,152 students who are registered for traditional classes represent Mars Hill’s highest enrollment in over 30 years. Of the 1,152 total, 617 are continuing students who are returning after at least one semester at Mars Hill. Students new to Mars Hill number 535, including 441 freshmen.

Executive Vice President Dr. John Wells credits the rise in enrollment to a number of initiatives undertaken in recent years through a strategic planning process. Chief among those strategies is more efficient admissions and financial aid processes. “We are trying to make private higher education affordable for the families of the area by using the financial aid award process to maximize opportunities,” Wells said. “Also, by streamlining processes for both admissions and financial aid, we deliver more information to potential students quicker. That information then paves the way for students to choose Mars Hill.”

Other recent initiatives at Mars Hill College

are designed to keep students engaged in a vibrant educational and social experience on campus. In the past three years, Mars Hill has revised orientation to emphasize student involvement on campus, used grant funds to emphasize undergraduate research, added significant resources to the student activities budget and hired additional faculty positions to maintain small class sizes, especially in freshman classes.

In addition, in anticipation of the students currently arriving, Mars Hill College has spent the summer increasing the number of student rooms available for residence on campus.

“Currently, we are responding to the increased enrollment by expanding and upgrading residence halls on campus, and we have plans for more, continued growth,” Wells said.

Dr. Craig Goforth, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, echoed Wells’ assertion that multiple factors have contributed to the increase. “This record-setting enrollment is due to our wonderful location, and a herculean team effort on the part of faculty, staff and administration. We’re looking forward to

this academic year, and we’re excited about welcoming these students into the Mars Hill family.”

Mars Hill College welcomes largest student body in 30 years

from Mitchell, Avery, and Yancey Counties. In addition to the backpacks, more than 200 sets of all the school supplies were given to students.

Under the guidance of event director Kim Hoyle, members of Liberty Hill came together to collect, sort, and distribute these school supplies. Also, a representative from the Gideons handed out New Testament Bibles for everyone, a n d F u n T i m e Inflatables provided extra excitement for the children after they received their school supplies. Other activities for everyone included many rounds of cake-walking, live gospel music, the dunking booth, a free lunch, and a variety of games.

Many other people and organizations helped make this event so successful: Peps i , Coke , the Gideons, Walmart,

several local vendors, the Mitchell County Sheriff’s Department (providing traff ic control), Spruce Pine F i r e D e p a r t m e n t ( p r o v i d i n g t h e dunking booth), and many who donated their time, money, and

school supplies. Liberty Hill Baptist

Church plans to make this an annual event. Those who would like to donate for next year, can call (828)765-7258 to leave a message.

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More than 400 p e o p l e a t t e n d e d t h e f i r s t a n n u a l Back2School Bash held by Liberty Hill Baptist Church in the Estatoe community of Mitchell County on Saturday, July 28, to help the students of this area start the school year wi th necessary supplies.

L i b e r t y H i l l members fe l t led to minister to the

c o m m u n i t y b y p r o v i d i n g f r e e school supplies to all school-aged children who at tended the Back2School Bash. These supplies ranged from pens, pencils, erasers, glue sticks, highlighters, crayons, c o l o r e d p e n c i l s , notebooks, loose-leaf paper, binders, a n d b a c k p a c k s . While some money w a s a l l o t t e d f o r

supplies, most items were dona ted by c h u r c h m e m b e r s and other members of the community. Originally, backpacks were not planned to be distributed; however, many people and groups were buying them to give away or donating money for their purchase.

A to ta l of 212 b a c k p a c k s w e r e given to s tudents

The Mountain Air Residents Community Fund (MARCF) i s now accepting Grant A p p l i c a t i o n s f o r December 2012 grants.

MARCF was created in 2007 to serve Yancey County in the areas of ar ts , educat ion/literacy, family issues, health and economic development. The Fund has distributed more than $200,000 in local grants. Good Eats, Dig In Garden, My Meds, 4-H, Graham Children’s Health Services, Family Violence Coalition and

Parkway Playhouse are among recent grant recipients. The Fund’s goal this year is to raise $100,000 to assist local non-profits.

M o u n t a i n A i r members that support MARCF are excited about opportunities to make a difference in their local community. The Fund is very active this year and is working diligently to attract new donors. In addition to donations received by the Fund, Mountain Air residents are looking for volunteer opportunities

i n t h e s u p p o r t e d organizations.

Grants are awarded in June and December. Applications for the upcoming December grants must be received no later than October 15. For more information, or for organizations interested in obtaining a Grant Application, p l e a s e c o n t a c t : Mountain Air Residents Community Fund, 100 Club Drive, Suite 144, Burnsville, NC 28714; or email your request to mtnairfund@gmail.com.

Mountain Air fund accepting grant applications

Liberty Hill Baptist leads successful back-to-school distribution

More than 400 people attended Liberty Hill’s Back2School Bash and picked up free school supplies for their children. The church felt led to minister to the community by providing school supplies free of charge to all school-aged children who came to the festivities.

Many lined up to enjoy inflatables and to have a free lunch.

Kellie Chapman from Liberty Hill talks with a young lady at the Back2School Bash as Claudia Ray and Rebecca Bradley excitedly look on.

The Woman’s Club of Burnsville will hold its Luncheon/Fashion Show on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Higgins United Methodist Church Family Life Center, 101 North Main St., beginning at 11:30 a.m. Proceeds will be used to provide a musical and a nursing scholarship for Mountain

Heritage High School students. The cost for the meal and fashion show is only $20. Come and join in a day filled with delightful food, beautiful clothes, friendly faces, and door prizes. For more information and tickets please call Verlyn Garland at 682-4398 or 688-4375 .

Women’s Club benefit funds local scholarship

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The Carolina Mountains Literary Festival presents

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The Mystery of George Masa is a film which chronicles the life of George Masa, a Japanese immigrant whose hiking, exploration and photography was instrumental in the founding of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the mapping and building of the Appalachian Trail during the 1920s and 1930s. But his life and death were filled with mystery.

Thursday, Sept. 6 at 7 pm in the Yancey County Public Library

reception with the filmmaker to follow ~~~~ cmlitfest.org for more details

Carolina Mountains Literary Festival ~ September 6-8

The Carolina Mountains Literary Festival presents

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The Mystery of George Masa is a film which chronicles the life of George Masa, a Japanese immigrant whose hiking, exploration and photography was instrumental in the founding of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the mapping and building of the Appalachian Trail during the 1920s and 1930s. But his life and death were filled with mystery.

Thursday, Sept. 6 at 7 pm in the Yancey County Public Library

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The Salvation Army Family Store and Donation Center of Burnsville is open Monday - Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The store, located at 623 West Main Street, accept donations Monday through Saturday and also does pick-ups. To schedule a pick-up, call 828-678-3577.

There will be a drawing every Thursday for a $25 in store

coupon. Come shop and enter for a chance to win! Senior day is every Wednesday, when those 60 plus will receive 50 percent off merchandise (excluding furniture and appliances). The store has a large selection of clothes for the entire family as well as household items.

“We appreciate our customers and look forward to seeing new faces!”

Salvation Army store serves Yancey

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By Jonathan Austinyancey County News

Mountain Heritage stifled the Erwin Warriors for the first half Friday in the season opener for both teams, but Erwin, led by running back Kelman Simpson, roared back in the second half to win 41-19 at home.

“We played really well the first half, exactly what we had to do,” said Cougar Coach Joey Robinson. “But when you’ve got a team like that, they’re like a bomb getting ready to go off, and they’ve got weapons everywhere. We knew that we couldn’t stop the run and the pass both,” Robinson said moments after the game.

Erwin won the toss but elected to receive, and the Cougars began grinding down the field. “We knew that, in order to win, we had to keep their offense off the field,” Robinson said, so the Cougars, led by quarterback Trevor Robinson, used 13 plays to march downfield before punching the ball into the end on a pass from Robinson to Drew Hoilman with 5:47 on the first-quarter clock.

But then Simpson took the field to return the Cougar’s kick 82 yards for a touchdown.

For most of the first half the Erwin offense sat on the bench as Heritage controlled the ball with short running plays. Heritage scored its second touchdown on a pass from Robinson to Austin Gardner with just 12.3 seconds to go in the half to take a 13-7 lead into the locker room. “In the first half I think they had 11 snaps,” Robinson said.

But when Erwin took the field in the third quarter they had apparently figured some things out and responded with 34 straight points to seal the game.

The pounding by the Cougar offense in the first half did tire the Erwin defenders, “but in the second half I thought we were tired,” Robinson said. “I know we had people cramping at halftime.”

The Cougars have a young team this year, and the quarterback - who is the coach’s son - was making his varsity debut.

“I cannot say more for our kids; I think they played as hard as they can play. I mean, we’ve got some things to fix; we tackled poorly ... but teams like (Erwin) will do that to you. I’m just proud of who we are.”

Robinson said the Cougars showed they can score against strong teams. “It was just a great team effort. The line blocked extremely well. I thought our quarterback made some great decisions. I thought the receivers caught the ball well. I thought our backs blocked hard and ran hard.”

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From Page 9The Cougars showed they can

move the ball to either side, and can connect with the pass play. “We knew we could do that.”

The Cougar varsity has worked together through youth league and junior varsity, and Robinson said that familiarity means a lot. “Our youth leagues are running our offense. Our kids are ready. They understand what we’re trying to do all the time.” And familiarity doesn’t mean predictability, the coach said. “You can ask Erwin; they had no clue what we were throwing at them the first half. We hit them in all different directions. We may line up in the same formations (and) run the same basic plays, but we can hit you at different spots all over the field.”

Robinson said the Cougars are “more skilled than we’ve been” in the receiver corps. “We’re not the fastest team in America, but we’re pretty good at ball control.”

The Cougars final score, in the fourth, was on a run by Dalton Robinson.

The Cougars welcome Rosman to the Pit Friday night in the first home game of the season. The Tigers, a 1A team in the Smoky Mountain Division, shocked 3A North Henderson at home Friday night. The Tigers scored on the ground in the second, third and fourth quarters, and won 20-16 after stopping the Knights on fourth-and-goal with the clock running out.

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Shotgun cleaned and shells resting in their cases. Feeders up, trail cameras ready, and bow sighted in. Yes, it is just about the time of year when hunters’ wives become hunters’ widows.

Realizing this by looking at the calendar and the trips planned ahead, I explained to my wife this last weekend would be hers. Just a husband/wife getaway. I suggested to her for us to get a small quaint cabin in the mountains and separate ourselves from reality. She bought in. In fact, she was all in. From the moment I mentioned it she was looking for places to stay.

Now the difference between men and women has been documented for ages. Not physically, but mentally. This set up of this trip was much the same way a shopping trip evolves. When I (men) think about shopping for clothes for instance, I (us men) can go into the store, check the size of a pair of jeans, and pick them up. Then I (again, us men) walk over to the clearance rack, look for the section with the right size shirt, grab one, and then I’m off to the register.

My wife (women) handles things differently. She looks for the clothes she likes. She spots something that really catches her eye. She picks it up and realizes it is the wrong size. She puts it up and will search the store for another that is the same. If I ran a clothing store, I would put all the same style clothes in the same area. Evidently the women’s sections are not arranged that way. Or at least that is the way I picture it as my wife works rack to rack like a bumble bee on a bed of flowers.

The worst part about shopping in this fashion is not the part of having to endure the flight of the bumble bee. It is having to hear all the way home how she could not find

anything after shopping from dawn to dusk yet somehow I was able to collect an entire wardrobe in less time than it takes to count one, two, thr… See what I mean!

So my wife is investigating cabin after cabin, all the while asking how far this is from that. Finally, I give in. I take the busiest 2 minutes and 15 seconds of my day and send her a couple of links to cabin locations mentioning a couple of choices from each link that I like. Now it was up to her to figure out from there.

We agreed on the cabin, and hit the asphalt toward our destination. We put together a list of about three things we would be interested in doing while staying on our getaway. And we decided we would not be disappointed if

we did neither. Rest and relaxation was the main goal. That is why the cabin I chose had a kitchen out on the porch! A little camping out without camping out.

The cabin was all of 100 square feet of non-air conditioned space. Hey, we are in the mountains. We don’t need AC. A fan and the outside air will do. We did have television. Three channels. All three were PBS (to be fair, one PBS channel was actually PBS Kids). But, to me, that was fine. In fact, it was fine to my wife, too.

We broke away one evening for dinner. Juicy burgers sitting under an umbrella while listening to a banjo. We didn’t have to paddle faster either. Everybody had their teeth. Everybody had shoes on. Peaceful.

Now what has this got to do with the outdoors? Everything. This was the outdoors. Simple cabin, simple amenities, simple life. Peaceful.

We decided we may, yes may, invite the kids along and go there again. It won’t be as peaceful. But you can’t lock them up in the closet but so many weekends. My daughter told me she would call Social Security next time I did that. I told her it would be quicker to just call 611. So much for peacefulness.

Bill Howard is an avid bowhunter and outdoorsman. He teaches hunter education (IHEA) and bowhunter education (IBEP) in North Carolina. He is a member of North Carolina Bowhunters Association and Pope & Young, and is an official measurer for both. He can be reached at billhoward outdoors@gmail.com.

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Hughes arrestedFrom the front

Hughes comes from a respected Yancey family, and once worked at the Farm Bureau where he was caught.

Buchanan gave this account of the arrest: On Aug. 16 at 4:42 a.m. Officer (Jonathan) Casteel of the Burnsville Police Department observed an open window at the Farm Bureau office on East Main Street during his nightly check of local businesses. Casteel called for backup after observing the screen for the window placed to the side and fresh handprints on the glass of the window. Officers with the Burnsville Police Department and the Yancey County Sheriff’s Department arrived and assisted Casteel in arresting Hughes.

Buchanan said the tools in Hughes’ possession were screwdrivers and a pry bar with which he tried to gain entry into the safe. Buchanan said Hughes surrendered without incident “once he realized the exits to the business were covered by law enforcement.”

At least two other local businesses - Advanced Auto Parts and Heritage Lumber - have been the victims of middle-of-the-night burglars who broke into company safes after disarming the business alarms. Other local businesses have been the targets of more brazen ‘smash and grab’ nighttime robberies.

Hughes was released on $10,000 unsecured bond.

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Cablevision’s application for federal funding was approved to install broadband to within reach of 97 percent of the residents and businesses in Yancey and Mitchell counties. “While the company’s application was initially accepted on October 5, 2010, and construction started soon thereafter, on December 14, 2011, the company received notice” from the USDA - Rural Utilities Service “that issues had arisen with their interpretation of the items included with the application, and that work on the project had to be suspended until the issues were resolved,” Country Cablevision wrote in an announcement early this year.

Many residents had watched as fiber was strung to within feet of their homes or businesses, only to see progress grind to a halt as the issues were resolved to the satisfaction of the Rural Utilities Service.

“After months of delay (which was no fault of Country Cablevision), it is exciting that Country Cablevision now is allowed to continue the work they have eagerly been awaiting,” Proffitt wrote in her announcement. “This is good news for Yancey and Mitchell counties as we move forward with economic development.”

Country Cablevision “is committed to the re-start of construction as soon as possible in order to fulfill its obligations to the citizens of Yancey and Mitchell counties,” the company said in its announcement earlier this year.

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By John Rosemond Q: Our 13-year-old daughter has been

mature for her age from early on. She takes advanced classes and makes straight As. She’s also very talented musically. We think, however, that she has become a media addict. She spends entirely too much time in her room on her computer, mostly using social media. When she’s not on the computer, she’s using her phone to text her friends. We’ve asked her to limit her use, but our words are falling on deaf ears. What approach would you recommend short of cutting off the Internet and taking away her phone? She needs a computer to do her school work.

A: If she’s addicted to electronic media, which may be the case, then I don’t think there’s any approach that’s going to work short of restricting her use of the Internet and taking away her phone.

Move her computer to a family area so you’re able to monitor her use, which you can restrict to school purposes. No child her age should have a private password, by the way. That simply invites trouble, but you can’t do much about that as long as the computer is in her room.

At age 13, she doesn’t need her own cell phone, unless one defines need as “needing” to have what her friends have. You can give her a cell phone on select occasions, such as a camping trip where no other type of phone is available. It’s probably the case that she doesn’t go on lots of camping trips, which only goes to prove that she doesn’t need her own cell phone.

You’ve asked her to limit her use? Who, pray tell, is running your household? I suspect that like many of today’s parents, you’re reluctant to do anything about this problem that might cause your daughter any inconvenience, much less distress. In the 12-Step world, that’s known as enabling, and in the real world, that’s how problems go from

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as 3 should be doing chores around the home. That seems awfully young, but can you recommend several age-appropriate chores I can try with my 3-and-one-half year old daughter?

A: Chores are an exercise in good citizenship, which your great grandmother said began in the home. They teach children teamwork, responsibility to others, and the service ethic. As such, household chores strengthen America.

By the time I was your daughter’s age, my mother - single at the time - had me washing floors. She began my education in domestic maintenance in a small area of the house. In no time, I was washing large areas like the kitchen. Oh, did I mention that chores also endow children with a feeling of competence and contribution?

One thing at a time, teach your daughter how to wash floors, dust furniture, and help you clean up after a meal. In no time, you’ll have a live-in maid! And a happy one at that!

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Kinslee was born June 27th, 2012. She weighed 7 lbs, 7 oz, and was 20 inches long. Kinslee’s big sister is Payton Alexis Rice.

Kinslee’s maternal grandparents are Eddie and Samantha Johnson of Burnsville. Her paternal grandparents are Kelley and Jennifer Rice of Tennessee and Leigh Riddle of Burnsville.Kinslee’s maternal great-grandparents are Ed and Wanda Johnson of Burnsville, and Shirley Burse of Avery County. Her paternal great-grandparents are Bill and Mabel Sinclair of Burnsville, and LJ and Brenda Rice of Wolf Laurel.

Local tomatoes are in season! This recipe doesn’t require much more effort than making toast, but thanks to fresh tomatoes and basil and a garlic rub, the result is sophisticated and delicious!

Bruschetta topping7 to 8 plum or heirloom tomatoes, roughly chopped.10 fresh basil leaves, finely chopped.1 garlic clove, minced¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil1 teaspoon kosher salt½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Combine all ingredients in a serving bowl and stir well. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, bake the basicbruschetta, below.

Basic Bruschetta8-inch round loaf of rustic Italian bread, cut into 12 ½ inch slices½ cup extra-virgin olive oil1 to 2 garlic cloves, skin on, halved

Preheat the oven to 375º F.On a rimmed sheet pan, arrange the bread in a single layer.Drizzle the bread with olive oil. Flip the bread and drizzle the other side.Put in the heated oven and bake until the bread starts to turn golden on the bottom, about 10 minutes.Turn and cook another 5 minutes, or until golden.Remove bread from the oven.Rub each slice with garlic.Add topping and serve as an appetizer, or with a green salad for lunch or a light dinner. Enjoy!

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With all the information and misinformation in the media about what to eat and what not to eat, it is easy to forget that true nutritional information is not just based on current opinions and slick marketing, but on scientific facts. When it comes to improving your health, I always start my clients with the basic information of what the different types of food are and what we need them for. When you understand what these different types of food do for your body, and begin to pay attention to how you feel when you eat them, it becomes much easier to make choices that support your metabolism and your health.

Macronutrients are those nutrients which are required by our bodies and need to be consumed in large amounts every day. The five main macronutrients are oxygen, water, protein, fat and carbohydrate. We increase our oxygen intake through regular exercise and deeper breathing, whether through walking, aerobics, yoga, or even gardening. Any type of exercise allows us to get more oxygen into the body, aiding in detoxification, improving our metabolism, and reducing stress. We just feel better after we breathe and move our bodies, and if we can exercise outside in nature and in the sunshine, that is all the better for increased amounts of oxygen and the many benefits of vitamin D production. Our need for plenty of fresh clean WATER is well known. Despite the prevalence and overconsumption of sodas, coffee, teas and sports drinks, these drinks do not replace the body’s need for water, and in fact act to dehydrate the body.

So that brings us to the three remaining macronutrients that we as human beings require to live and be in good health; Protein, fat, and carbohydrate. That is it, all foods are either one, or a combination of two, or all three of these macronutrients. Proteins, fats, and carbohydrates do all very different things in our bodies, and once you begin to recognize what type of food you are eating, then you will be able to create balanced meals that satisfy both your appetite and your metabolism. While every nutrition label that you see clearly shows the grams of protein, fat and carbohydrate, the real challenge in our modern world is not having adequate access to all three types of macronutrients in their natural, unrefined and unadulterated form. A healthy lifestyle requires not just learning how to see the quantity of macronutrients, to be able to read the ingredient label and discern the quality of macronutrients in our foods.

Protein is made up of hydrogen, carbon and oxygen – and unlike plant foods or carbohydrates – protein also contains nitrogen. Nitrogen is what gives protein the capacity to help build and repair body tissues (something that carbohydrates cannot do.) Proteins are essentially tangles of amino acid molecules. There are twenty

different types of nutritional amino acids, some of which are labeled as ‘essential amino acids’ because our bodies cannot produce

them on their own – we must get them from our nutritional intake. We all require daily infusions of top quality proteins just to sustain life because our bodies cannot store them – or their building blocks - in the same way they store fats.

B e c a u s e p l a n t proteins in general have a lower biological value

than animal proteins and often are missing one or more key amino acids or protein building blocks, vegetarians must be especially careful in choosing their proteins. Incomplete protein will keep you alive but it cannot promote growth or even cellular repair and rebuilding. An incomplete protein is therefore a protein that does not contain all of the essential amino acids. Does this mean that incomplete proteins are bad? Of course not. In fact, many vegetables fit into this category and by eating two vegetables that complement the ‘missing’ amino acids in each other’s profile, your dietary intake will then have a complete amino acid profile.

Protein is the main component of every cell and body fluid except bile and urine. In other words we are protein. Our muscles, hair, skin, nails, eyes, blood, enzymes, and many hormones and nerve chemicals are mostly protein. Bones are protein hardened by calcium and other minerals. In addition, protein is required for the formation of infection-fighting antibodies as well as for the growth and maintenance of all tissues. Protein also plays a key role in the regulation of the fluid and salt balance between compartments of the body and acts as a buffer in the maintenance of acid-base balance. Thus, protein is needed in our bodies to function as hormones, hemoglobin, enzymes and antibodies.

As we can see, proteins are used in our cells for a variety of functions. One of the most important functions is the building of muscle tissue. Without proper protein intake, your body will be unable to maintain all of those tiny muscle fibers that make up your muscles and keep you strong, toned, and active. So protein is a pretty important macronutrient when it comes to staying lean and healthy. Our base metabolism (calorie burning furnace) is determined by how much muscle tissue we have in our bodies. The best animal sources for protein include meat, eggs, and dairy products from pastured animals, free- range poultry, wild game, and wild-caught fish and seafood. Vegetable sources of protein include legumes, beans, lentils, split peas, fermented soy products like tempeh, grains like quinoa and brown rice, nuts and nut butters, as well as some in vegetables.

FATS (or lipids), made up of glycerol and individual molecules called fatty acids, perform life-supporting functions in every

human cell in the body. Fats support the cardiovascular, reproductive, immune, and memory and nervous system operations, and in the manufacture and utilization of the sterol hormones. The human body needs the essential fatty acids to manufacture and repair cell membranes, enabling the cells to obtain optimum nutrition and expel harmful waste products. A primary function of good fats is the production of prostaglandins, which regulate body functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, blood clotting, fertility, conception, and play a role in immune function by regulating inflammation and encouraging the body to fight infection.

Fats are also required for healthy skin, the transport and absorption of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, and the regulation of cholesterol metabolism. Essential Fatty Acids (EPA and DHA) are also needed for proper growth in children, particularly for neural development and maturation of sensory systems, with male children having higher needs than females. Fetuses and breast-fed infants also require an adequate supply of essential fatty acids through the mother’s dietary intake. Fats, even stored fats, are in a constant, dynamic state of metabolism. So essential to body function are fats that even after starvation, fats are still found in tissues.

One of the most common pieces of nutritional misinformation that is still unfortunately being promoted (marketed) in modern America is that FAT makes you fat- a fallacy that has resulted in a tremendous rise in heart disease, diabetes, obesity, ADD, autoimmune disorders and a host of other chronic conditions. Fats and fatty acids are now considered key nutrients affecting early growth and development, as well as nutrition-related chronic diseases later in life. Not only are fats are a critical part of healthy dietary intake, but they are also allow you to feel satiated, balance your blood sugar levels (balances the “ups and downs” and cravings that happen from consuming refined carbohydrates and sugars), and provide you with long lasting energy.

“Good” fats are absolutely essential to health. In addition to being the body’s most efficient source of energy, “good” fats are critical for a wide variety of metabolic processes. Essential fatty acids fall into two groups:

omega-3 and omega-6. Omega-6 fatty acids are everywhere: corn oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil all contain them, and they are known to create inflammation in the body and are common in refined foods. Omega-3 fatty acids, which reduce inflammation, are found in natural, whole foods, like dark green veggies, flax seeds, pumpkin seeds and walnuts, wild-caught salmon, trout and tuna, as well as meat, eggs, and dairy products from pastured animals. Current thinking is that these two fats need to be balanced in the diet at a ratio like 1-to-1 or 2-to-1, rather than the inflammation producing ratio of 20-1 seen in most Western diets. When we eat more whole foods, unaltered and unprocessed the way Nature intended, we can begin to get closer to the proper ratio of omega-3 fats in our diets, but I also recommend increasing one’s ratio with a high quality, high potency omega-3 supplement.

Good Fats do not include chemically altered, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, vegetable shortening and spreads, margarine, and most vegetable oils. And because the fats from commercial animals are highly contaminated with a variety of chemicals and hormones, are nutrient deficient, and have a seriously altered fatty acid profile, fat from pastured animals is by far more preferable. This is why butter from pastured animals, especially raw butter, is an exceptionally “good” fat and organic butter is the next best - but not optimal choice. Organic butter, unrefined organic coconut oil, or at low temperatures organic first cold pressed olive oil are the only oils that I would recommend cooking with.

Carbohydrates are sugars and starches, and they serve primarily as a source of energy – or body fuel. They also provide much needed digestive assistance in the form of dietary fiber, and in their natural states contain many vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. As food is being digested, your body is looking to break whatever food comes into the digestive system down by reducing it into manageable blocks. In the case of carbohydrates, your body breaks them down into a simple sugar called glucose (otherwise known as blood sugar). Glucose will be stored in your muscle tissue and liver and held as stored energy (called glycogen). Glucose is also primarily used by your brain –

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From page 14if you’ve ever noticed how your energy levels can drop after spending a lot of time thinking, this shows you how much blood sugar that computer in your head can eat up. Glycogen is broken down into glucose as needed and is stored to keep blood sugar levels relatively steady.

Simple carbohydrates, like table sugar and refined foods, lack fiber and minerals, are digested quickly and hit your blood stream rapidly, while the complex carbohydrates, like vegetables and other foods in their natural states, take a bit longer to digest and consequently the glucose molecules are more steadily released into your bloodstream. All of this relates to terms like glycemic index and glycemic load. The wisdom to get out of this is the same kind of things that you’ve heard before: eat more complex carbohydrates, like fresh vegetables, and less simple and/or refined carbohydrates, like pasta, breads, cakes, cookies, etc.

W h i l e d i e t a r y f i b e r i s categorized under the carbohydrate

section of nutritional labels, it is technically indigestible by humans as dietary fiber is a non-starch polysaccharide. Fiber is primarily used by the body to absorb toxins and help push food through the digestive system, and is a crucial part of healthy dietary nutrition! By eating lots of fresh vegetables, whole grains such as brown rice or quinoa, and beans, and eliminating refined sugars and carbohydrates, you will get a good amount of both soluble and insoluble fiber in your diet.

M a n y s t u d i e s s h o w high carbohydrate diets are correlated with hyperglycemia, h y p e r i n s u l i n e m i a , hype r t r i g lyce r idemia , and hypercholesterolemia. These are all medical terms for too much glucose, insulin, triglycerides, and cholesterol, respectively. Type 2 diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate overload. Don’t be fooled by those who insist that reducing carbohydrate intake will not help diabetes. In my experience, almost everyone benefits from

carbohydrate reduction, even if they have had type 2 diabetes for years and are taking drugs to lower their glucose levels. Studies have found that a high level of saturated fatty acids in the blood is reflective of high carbohydrate intake and that saturated fatty acids are not an appropriate marker of dietary fat intake, but are rather a marker of carbohydrate intake.

Reducing your intake of refined carbohydrates, and increasing your consumption of fresh vegetables, legumes, and real “whole grains” will greatly improve your health and vitality.

Know that you have a “working knowledge” of the three different kinds of macronutrients, you can see the value of each, and consider which macronutrients, and foods, that you need more of, and which you need less of, to reach your health goals. As you can see, improving your health is not just making sure that you have the proper proportion of each macronutrient in your diet, but that you have macronutrients and foods

in your diet that are in their natural and unaltered states. Thankfully, eating a “original” whole foods diet makes the process of eating quality foods in healthy proportions both easy and delicious!

SourcesMacronutrients Guide – Dietary

Facts About Carbohydrates Protein & Fat

Eat Wild.com, Health Benefits of Grass-Fed Products

The Hea l th Advan tage , Macronutrients Myths and Facts

Life Without Bread: How a Low Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life by Christian B. Alan, PhD and Wolfgang Lutz, M.D., p 52

Wise Traditions, The Weston A. Price Foundation, Spring 2004 issue, pg 11

Medea L Galligan earned her Masters of Science in Nutrition from Oklahoma State University, and also attended the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s Health Coach Training Program. Visit www.HealthyLifestyle Concepts.com for more information.

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