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Vol. 65 - No. 49
The weather Tuesday, high
59, low 47, hum. 65 percent,
and .01 inches of rain fell.
What's happening:
The Columbus Merchants
Association meets tonight at 7
p.m. at McDonalds.
Registration for children who
will be entering kindergarten
next fall will be held tomorrow
at Sunny View School.
A Festival of Flight will be
held in Green Creek Saturday
on the grounds of Green Creek
Elementary School. Among the
day's performers will be "Lazy
Boy and the Recliners", a fam
ily band made up of Claude,
Zeke and Jacob Graves.
The Foothills Humane
Society Easter Egg Hunt will be
held Saturday at 2:30 p.m.
at the shelter. Festivities will
run from 2 to 4 p.m. The shel
ter is located on Little Mountain
Road between Hwy. 14 and
Peniel Road. For more infor
mation, call 863-4444.
The Polk County Board of
Education meets Monday, April
13 at 6:30 in the Steams Edu
cation Center board room.
Registration for children who
will be entering kindergarten
next fall will be held April 14 at
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TRYON, N. C. 28782
Mill Spring Program
Attracts Attention
In the spring of 1990, Mill
Spring Accelerated School was
designated as one of North
Carolina's six official "Learning
Labs" by the North Carolina
Association of Educators.
Since then, Principal Rick
Howell has received a steady
stream of requests from educa
tors around the state wanting to
visit his school.
The pace has quickened dur
ing the past few months, reports
Howell, and in spite of the fact
that Mill Spring Accelerated
School will close in two
months, the faculty is more
optimistic than ever about the
"accelerated learning" program
which has brought the school
such attention.
The concept of "accelerated
learning," initiated by Stanford
University and first tried in
California, begins with a school
vision developed by the faculty.
The "vision" to which each
teacher at Mill Spring sub
scribes is that every student will
be at least up to grade level in
all subject areas by graduation
from sixth grade, with a high
degree of self-esteem and
intellectual curiosity.
To accomplish this vision, the
school faculty, aided by grants
from local industry, has con
verted its reading program from
basal readers to literature. Stu
dents work cooperatively in
groups but are not segregated
by ability. They tutor their
peers, individually and by
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24 Pages Today
THURSDAY, APRIL 9,1992
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A Crumbling Dream?
A Spartanburg couple contracted for a custom designed house to
be built near Columbus, and construction began last August
Today work has stopped with the house just 35% complete and
the couple and builder are filing counter suits in Polk County
P 0 ^ 8 to determine who is responsible and who will pay The
builder points out that the house passed inspection, and reportedly
exceeds minimum state code standards. He says he wants to fix
any problems. The couple and their private inspectors say the
nk-mr d v^ 0SS i,T? ey P 0 ^ 110 P roblem s such as the deck pier
pictured above perched precariously next to a hole undemeath^hJ
house. Reporter Reen Smith files the first of three sS^n
situation inside today's Bulletin. ones ° n ^ S