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Vol. 65 - No. 97
The weather Monday, high
85, low 64, hum. 70 percent.
What's happening:
A special program on skin
care for the sick and disabled
will be presented today from
3:30 to 5:30 by St. Luke's Hos
pital. Tire meeting will take
place at Isothermal Community
College. For more information,
call 894-3311, ext. 3230.
Tire Polk County Paddlers
June trip will be to the New
River on June 19, 20 and 21.
Reservations for accommoda
tions or canoes can be made by
calling the New River Camp-
. ground at 919-372-8793.
The Newcomers Groups will
meet Friday, June 19, at 7:30
p.m. in the Coldwell Banker
Conference Room. For more
information call 894-2399 or
457-2984.
On Saturday, June 20, the
Friendship Council will hold its
7th annual summer picnic. The
festivities will begin at 4:30
p.m. at Roseland Community
Center. For more information,
call Louise Payton, 859-5203,
or Katherine Canady,
859-6504.
The Tryon High School Class
of '72 will hold its 20th Class
Reunion on Saturday, June 20,
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TRYON. N.C. 28782
Curfew For Minors
Begins Tonight
Tryon youth 16 and under
must be off the streets by 11
p.m. tonight under a curfew
ordinance passed Monday night
by Tryon Town Council.
The ordinance was enacted in
an attempt to solve some of the
recent problems of vandalism,
loitering, littering and other
complaints stemming from
activity in the bar area on Trade
Street.
A standing-room-only crowd
was on hand Monday for a ses
sion of public input pertaining
to a combination of complaints
of a youth "gang" (the Posse)
and bar crowd conduct.
Recent acts of vandalism,
broken car windows, slashed
tires, and a drive-by shooting
were contributed to the "Posse."
However, residents and Trade
Street business owners con
tend that beer bottle litter, pub
lic urinating, loud profanity,
and couples "making out" on
cars are bar crowd related.
Council member Warren
Carson was quick to point out
that the curfew only addresses
youth ages up to 16. The youth
causing problems are probably
more in the 17 to early 20's age
range, he pointed out. Ellis
Fincher added that the bar
crowd represents the 25-30 age
range.
"We're talking about three
ages of people and we're only
addressing one," Carson com
mented.
The curfew ordinance, based
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17,1992
Wins State
Vocational Award
Elizabeth Whaley, an eighth
grader at Saluda School, won
first place in the category of
"Personal Services" on May
8-9 at the 17th Annual Leader
ship Conference, sponsored in
Greensboro by the Career
Exploration Clubs of North
Carolina. Above, with Saluda
Vocational Education teacher
Evangelena Barber, she dis
plays her trophy.
To Meet
There will be a working
meeting of the Saluda City
Council for the 1992-93 budget
on June 22, 1992 at 7:30 p.m. in
the meeting room above City
Hall. 7
There will be a meeting on
June 29, at 7:30 p.m. to adopt
the budget.
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Only Citizens,
Not Town, Can
Repeal ABC Laws
Tryon Town Council has no
authority to, and wouldn't even
if it could, rescind Tryon's ABC
laws.
Only by referendum can the
ABC laws of any area be
changed, and that referendum
can come about either by a pet
ition of 35% of the voting
population or at the
request of the Town Council
due to controversy.
"The change does not come
from the council, but from the
people," Tryon Manager Mat
thew Dolge emphasized at a
standing-room-only gathering
it Town Hall Monday night.
In an attempt to gather public
input into ways to control con
tinued problems in the down
town Tryon area, Tryon Town
Council invited the public to
comment on solutions to a
growing problem of violence
and crude public behavior in a
two-block area of Trade Street.
The area in question includes
a public bar, Preston's, a private
club, Country Cork, a pizza
parlor which serves beer.
Sidestreet Pizza and the Tryon
Movie Theatre, which serves
beer only in the balcony area.
In addition, a yet-to-be-
opened Deli in the Trade Street
Mall has received a license to
sell malt beverages.
Monday night pitted local bar
owners and their patrons against
other area business owners and
residents tired of the "bar
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