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Vol. 65 - No. 58
TRYON, N.C. 28782 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22,1992
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The weather Monday, high
71, low 62, hum. 68 percent,
and by Tuesday at 7 a.m. 1.89
inches of rain had fallen.
What's happening:
Rabies clinics will be held all
over Polk County Saturday
from 1 to 3 p.m. at four loca
tions, Bonnie Brae Veterinary
Hospital, Green Creek School,
Saluda School, and Sunny View
School; from 3 to 5 p.m. at Mill
Spring School; and from noon
Clinic 01 ' 31 Red F ° X Veterinar y
The Republicans will hold
their Pig Pickin' Saturday at
Republican headquarters in
Columbus. The six Republican
candidates for county commis
sioner will speak.
A reception for the opening of
u Borner's art show will
be held Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m.
at the Tryon Fine Arts Center
Itis sponsored by the Tryon
Painters and Sculptors.
Habitat for Humanity will
dedicate the Roger Anderson
“ remon y Sunday at
2.30 at the Habitat Resale Store
in Landrum.
'X in be 3 Picnic in the
ar ^P ri ^h a * Greene Cor
ner. The Lanier Library is
sponsoring an informal program
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County To Consider
^ Taking EMS Private
The Polk County Board of
Commissioners may soon
receive two proposals from
organizations who would run
the county ambulance service.
Proposals are expected from
Mission Memorial Hospital in
Asheville and a group of Polk
County Emergency Medical
Service (EMS) workers, board
chainnan Jeannie Marlin said.
Mission Memorial already
runs the EMS services in
Mitchell, Transylvania and
Yancey counties, Martin said.
The hospital runs the service
at no profit, but does hope that
by providing the service it will
enlarge its service base.
"They are not predatory to the
local hospital,'' Martin said.
"They more want to develop a
relationship."
Martin said Mission prom
ises to patients who can talk
wherever they want to go, and
that rather than St. Luke’s Hos-
Pilal. it is more likely that
Spartanburg Regional would
s y^ er U Mission Memorial
strengthened its position in Polk
County.
A hospital spokesperson
however, said St. Luke's offi
cials will probably strongly
oppose Mission Memorial tak
ing over EMS.
Board chairman Martin said,
I a company came along to
manage and keep the service,
and be more efficient, we would
take a look at it."
She said the local EMS
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V -
Nell Deaver
Next Bloodmobile
May 4 In Tryon
The next Red Cross Blood-
mobile will be Mon., May 4 at
the Parish House of Holy Cross
Episcopal Church on Melrose
Ave. in Tryon. Hours are 2:30
p.m. to 6p.m.
Red Cross Bloodmobile
volunteer Nell Deaver is shown
as she worked at a recent
Bloodmobile.
Jean Stratford, executive
director of the Polk County
Chapter of the American Red
Cross, said that plans have been
made to speed things up at the
May 4 Bloodmobile.
"Instead of three blood-taking
stations, we will now have
four,' she said. "We hope this
will enable our blood donors to
be processed faster than in the
recent past."
. Mrs. Stratford said that it is
important that as many people
"Wh POSSlbIc donate blood,
when you give blood, you
give the gift of life," she said
Blood donors must be at least
years old and in good health,
there is no top age limit.
Lake Lanier Slalom
Ski Course Denied
Although the Lake Lanier
Civic Association board voted
in favor of the request, the
Tryon Town Council denied its
permission to anchor buoys for
a slalom ski course in the Lake
Lanier bottom.
The town owns the lake bot
tom and exercises rights over
waterfront development.
The council heard a half
dozen citizens speak in opposi
tion, and received another half
dozen letters with the same
complaints - the lake is too
small and a slalom course will
be unsafe, and all property
owners are supposed to have
access to the lake at al! times. A
slalom course, although used in
the mornings only, would deny
that right, several speakers told
the council.
Mayor Bob Neely also
advised the council that it
would have to investigate its
liability if it approved a slalom
course and someone was hurt
using it.
. The council didn't need to
investigate. Since no one spoke
a course « ‘he council
Request q " icUy '° “'-y '»«
dents for presenting a divided
Picture to the council and uiged
them to get your act together."
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