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(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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18 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 149
TRYON, N. C. 28782
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30,1990
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The weather Tuesday: high 96,
low 67, hum. 73 percent. It’s the
humidity!
There will be live entertain
ment at the Pine Crest Inn Friday
and Saturday night to kick-off the
Labor Day weekend. Dorothy
Dobbs, a “belter” who is well
known to audiences around
Jacksonville, Fla., has been
booked.
Our sources say Ms. Dobbs, in
her mid-40s, handles everyone’s
favorites tunes from the last six
decades, and is particularly
noted for her renditions of Billie
Holliday’s blues tunes. Expect
her to work through the crowd
and entertain one and all from 6
p.m. until late.
Also on Saturday night, the
Polk County Republican Club is
holding its annual picnic feast at
Harmon Field in Tryon. For
tickets, information or
reservations call 859-9810.
And don’t forget the Ninth
Annual Hogback Mountain Arts
and Crafts Fair to be held from 9
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Satuday at
Landrum High School.
There will be no Bulletin
published Monday, Labor Day,
and the newspaper office will be
closed.
Henderson County voters over-
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Polk Population
Trends Surprising
Chamber of Commerce News
by Michael McCue
Demographic trends suggest
opportunities and challenges for
all of us in business. Polk County
is unusually interesting
demographically.
Not long ago, I had a
fascinating conversation with
Bill Tillman, North Carolina’s
State Demographer in Raleigh.
The most recent good data that
we have on population
distribution and trends were
published by Bill’s department
last summer. Here are some of
the State Demographer’s
statistical estimates, which I find
particularly useful to know.
Polk County’s total population
in 1988 was 14,728, a 13 percent
increase in the eight years since
the beginning of the decade. In
that period, deaths of 1,455
resident people exceeded births
to residents (whether born at St.
Luke’s or out of the county) of
1,078, for a net “natural”
population decrease of 377.
But inward migration was 2,115
people. This is a rate over the
1980 population base of 16.3
percent, compared to a statewide
average in-migration of 5.3
percent. Inbound migration rates
of some other counties were:
Rutherford 5.1 percent,
Transylvania 9 percent, Macon
16.1 percent, Henderson 17
percent, Moore (Pinehurst) 15.1
percent.
In terms of age “cohorts,”
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Worsnop Elected
Library V.P.
Nancy Worsnop has been
elected Vice President of the Polk
County Public Library Board of
Trustees. She has been a member
of the board for one year.
A native of Hollywood,
California, she grew up in
Flushing, N.Y. and lived most of
her married life in Michigan,
except for a few years in
Australia and Canada. She taught
school in Plymouth for six years
after graduating from the
University of Michigan with a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
Always active as a volunteer
wherever she lived, Nancy has
continued such activities since
moving to Polk County three
years ago. She has been a
volunteer at the Peppermint Gift
Shoppe and is not Coordinator of
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At Campobello-
Gramling School
Every Can Counts
Students in Melinda Green’s
Sth and 6th grade science classes
are very excited about the year
ahead. These students are under
taking a recycling project to help
clean up our environment.
Aluminum cans are being
collected on a weekly basis. All
students are encouraged to
participate because — EVERY
CAN COUNTS.
With money earned from these
cans the students plan to buy bird
seed for the feeder in the school
courtyard, hamster food and
supplies for the classroom pet.
and fish food for the fish in the
aquarium. The students will
also help Mrs. Greene select
materials to be purchased for use
in the classroom. Of course, the
more cans they collect, the more
money they have to spend. So.
if you know a student in Sth or 6th
grade at CGS, please let them
have any aluminum cans you
have because — EVERY CAN
COUNTS! - Reporter
Red Fox Bridge
Results of Ladies Red Fox
Bridge are as follows: 1st.
Kathleen Glunz; 2nd. Ruth
Casey; 3rd. Barbara Keffer
Narcotics Anonymous
NC Meeting schedule Tuesdays
and Fridays, 8 p.m. Church of
Holy Cross. Phone 859-2272 or 894-
2668 for more information