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Jeffrey A. Byrd, Editor and Publisher
The Tryon Daily Bulletin (USPS 643-360) is
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The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Printed In the THERMAL BELT of Western North Carolina
28 Pages Today
Vol. 65 - No. 101
The weather Wednesday: high
69, low 61, hum. 68 percent,
and by 7 a.m. Thursday .15
inches of rain had fallen.
Odd but true: Art Champlin
brought us a couple of hickory
nuts from that oak tree cut
down Wednesday between the
post office and NCNB in Tryon.
Wes Sessoms drove by as the
denuded tree's vine-covered
trunk was being taken down log
by log Wednesday.
"If the town would have cut
the vines off of it, it wouldn't
have died," Sessoms called out.
"That was a great tree."
'Was' is right.
Questions to ponder: Why is
Tryon paying twice? Where
were the taxpayers when the
Town of Tryon was deciding to
duplicate the county's E-911
dispatching service last fall?
Due to a lack of confidence in
the county's ability to run the
dispatching service, the town
council decided to buy its own
E-911 computer equipment (for
$5,000) and keep five dispatch
ers on the payroll.
The operating cost is an esti
mated $80,000 a year, roughly
the same amount as that raised
by the 13-cent tax increase
passed Monday niglit.
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TRYON. N C 28782
Wing Haven/
Discovery Place
FENCE Venture
Wing Haven Gardens and
Bird Sanctuary and Discovery
Place at Charlotte will be our
special FENCE Venture Satur
day, July 13. We will carpool
and a catered lunch will be
provided. Call FENCE at
859-9021 for more information
and to make your reservation.
Wing Haven has been a uni
que part of Charlotte since
1927. The formal garden areas
are designed so that visitors
may stroll brick paths and enjoy
the many lovely vistas, as well
as beautiful trees, flowers and
shrubs.
Beyond the formal gardens
are wooded areas filled with
ferns and wild flowers.
Throughout the gardens,
emphasis is on plantings for
bird attraction-providing cover,
nesting sites and food. Many
pools, dripping bird baths and
re-circulating fountains delight
visitors and birds alike.
At Discovery Place, we shall
visit a special exhibit called
Superheroes: a High-Tech
Adventure. Superheroes is a
stylized city of technology and
adventure, compact enough to
fit into a museum, yet complex
enough to invite hours of dis
covery. The city is populated by
superheroes, familiar male and
female characters who possess
extraordinary powers.
As visitors explore the city,
they encounter technological
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FRIDAY, JUNE 28,1991
Glassman
One-Day Gardening
Course June 29
On Saturday, June 29 local
gardeners and would-be gar
deners are in for a treat. They
will be able to visit Jerome
Glassman's mini-farm on Dug
Hill Rd., in Little Dark Corners.
There, Jerome Glassman, an
avid local gardener, will share
his accumulated proven meth
ods of gardening on a one-day
course presented by the Polk
County Campus of Isothermal
Community College.
Students of the course will
learn about the raised bed tech
nique of gardening, mulching,
row planting, companion plant
ing, planting by phases of the
moon, composting, herbs as
pesticides, cultivation of Shi-
take mushrooms and more.
The Glassman property is
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A Family Art Exhibit
Something new for the Arts
Palette, located on Melrose
Ave. next to the Fine Arts Cen
ter, will be a family art exhibit
on Wednesday, July 3 from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
The artists arc the children of
Abie Proudfoot who will be
here for the family reunion that
Ted and Abie arc having at Bear
Creek Lodge (now Melrose
Landing) during the first week
of July.
Says Abie, "Sally is a fine
portraitist who had a one
woman exhibit at Dunbarton
Concert Hall in Georgetown in
which she displayed 22 mem
bers of one family dressed in
Elizabethan costume. To cele
brate Shakespeare's birthday!
She has painted unique designs
in swimming pools in George
town but I think her forte is pen
and ink sketches. She does them
of houses for Pardoe Co.,
Washington's largest real estate
firm. The Palms Restaurant in
Washington is filled with doz
ens of her caricatures of D.C.
biggies. The Washington Post
has featured pictures and
articles of her astonishing
trompe loeil. She's very versa
tile.
Ann, who lives in Fox Island
WA, is represented by the Cor
coran Studio Gallery in Wash
ington, D.C. Her watercolors
are vibrant and full of fantasy
faces and all manner of original
and humorous flights of fancy
You can look at one of Ann's
paintings for ten minutes and
find new surprises. If V0u
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