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Founded Jan 31. 1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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The Bulletin is published
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The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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10 Pages Today
Vol. 63 — No. 188
The weather Wednesday: high
73, low 56, hum. 67 percent.
Sunday is “Trick-Or-Treat For
UNICEF Day.” UNICEF is the
United Nations International
Children's Emergency Fund, and
its services have been offered to
children in need all over the globe
for decades. You may find
children coming to your door
asking for contributions for
UNICEF Sunday. Now you'll
know what it is all about.
Bob Bowman, the project
manager for Tryon Estates,
stopped through the Bulletin
office Wednesday to say hello.
He’s back on his feet and looking
great after having had a heart
attack last month. That is, he’s
looking as great as Bob can look.
We were sure glad to see him.
Don't forget the school
carnivals and festivals this
weekend. The PTA at each school
sponsors these events to involve
the community with the school
and to raise money for worth
while projects.
Sunny View School will hold a
Fall Festival tonight starting
with a turkey dinner at 5 p.m. O.
P. Earle Elementary will host its
Halloween Carnival and Hot Dog
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TRYON. N. C. 28782
Saluda Fall Leaf
Festival A Success
The first Fall Leaf Festival was
held at Saluda on Saturday, Oct.
20.
Activities included hayrides in
horse drawn wagons, provided by
Roy Morgan and Cliff Cox.
The children’s poster
competition was won by John
Burdett, pictured above (left)
with his friend Tracy Shurtleff.
All the entrants pictures
decorated the store fronts on
Main Street.
Scarecrows entered by various
groups were displayed
throughout the city. The first
place winner was Homemakers
Extension; 2nd, Straxx; and 3rd,
Mountain Page CommunityClub.
Various civic groups provided
snacks and food items and
spaghetti dinners were served to
over 100 people in the Fire Hall.
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FRIDAY. OCT. 26, 1990
School Board Profiles: Tryon
Each candidate for the Polk County Board of Education has been
asked a set of questions by the Tryon Daily Bulletin. What follows is
a synopsis of the answers given by the two candidates from Tryon.
Voters on Nov. 6 may choose one candidate from each township
race: Green Creek. Tryon and Columbus. In Cooper's Gap, Ann
Whitmire is running unopposed. Green Creek candidates were
profiled Thursday. Columbus candidates will be profiled Monday,
and candidates for the Polk County Board of Commissioners will be
profiled starting Tuesday.
BILL McKAIG
Tryon Polk County Board of
Education candidate Bill
McKaig’s concern for education
goes beyond his role as a parent
to include all people who have to
make a living.
In his years in the U.S. Air
Force and now as supervisor at
Barnette Southern, McKaig has
seen people who quit school to go
to work, and, once they’ve
started working have a family.
These people have no chance for
advancement in any field. A high
school education is a must for any
job now, and to advance,
additional training and/or
schooling is needed, he pointed
out.
The biggest strength in the
Polk County Education system is
that the majority of teachers and
community support the school
system, McKaig said. A lot of
people have put dollars into the
schools, he said pointing to
Arthur Farwell, who donated
computers to Tryon Elementary
School, and the Community
Foundation, which has helped all
schools in the county.
The school system’s weakness,
McKaig said, is the school board.
He charges that the school
board is too involved in trying to
build the new high school instead
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GEORGIA PACK
Tryon school board candidate
Georgia Pack said she would like
to continue as a member of the
Polk County Board of Education
to be part of the completion of the
merger she helped start. She said
she would like to see the
academic and building projects
through to the end.
Pack said she sees the merger
and the goals of this system to
provide quality education for our
children as the strength of Polk
County’s Education System.
The school administration and
school board has put forth a lot of
team work and “everything
we’re going after is toward
providing quality education for
the children of Polk County,”
Pack said. The beginnings of
merger were tough, but once the
two separate school board saw
that merger was a sure thing,
“we pulled together,” she said.
Pol County’s low SAT scores
are one of the weaknesses Pack
sees for the school system. “But
people don’t look at where we
were and where we’re aiming,”
she said.
The county’s SAT scores have
improved slowly, but coming up
to the level the school board
wants does not happen
overnight, she said. Pack pointed
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