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12 Pages Today
Vol. 65 - No. 125
The weekend weather:
Friday high 86, low 70, hum.
72 percent, and 1.22 inches of
rain fell; Saturday, high 92,
low 69, hum. 65 percent and .04
inches of rain fell; Sunday high
89, low 70, hum. 62 percent
and .18 inches of rain fell. By
Monday morning, another .2
inches of rain had fallen.
Art Champlin of Tryon has
been following the recent Curb
discussions of animals' ability
to navigate. He was recently in
the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park slaying at an inn
in the mountains on the Ten
nessee side of the park.
A bear and her three cubs
were the talk of the inn guests
and staff. Apparently the bears
had become too casual around
humans, digging through the
dumpster and even trying to
make their way into the indoor
swimming pool.
So park rangers captured the
bears and moved them clear
across the 520,000-acre park,
over the mountains into North
Carolina and released them.
Guess what? Three weeks
later they were back at the
same dumpster having break-
fast.
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TRYON, N.C. 28782
Red Fox Buyer
Once Played For
St. Louis Browns
Gene Holbrook, the man who
has a contract to purchase Red
Fox Country Club, once played
for the St. Louis Browns minor
league baseball team.
But he left baseball. It didn't
pay enough-
In the four decades since then
he has made plenty of money as
a developer in Cabarrus County,
northeast of Charlotte. Enough
that he said he doesn't plan to
take a salary from Red Fox
Country Club once he owns it.
Closing should take place
sometime around August 1st, he
said in an interview Monday
from his office in Myrtle Beach.
Holbrook has been in Colum
bus a lot recently, meeting with
the Red Fox Property Owners'
committee and members of The
Club at Red Fox.
He said he has described his
plans to them: club members
will not have to pay new initia
tion fees to continue as mem
bers; the course will be refurb
ished; and Holbrook hopes
eventually enough members
will join to take Red Fox
entirely private.
But as he described his plans,
which he said he will first
unveil in detail for members at
a dinner sometime after closing,
Holbrook said he met some
skepticism.
"One man said, 'We've heard
all of this before,'" Holbrook
recalled. "They have lived for
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TUESDAY. JULY 28,1992
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Terrific Tappers
Part of the dance recital at Discovery House of The Arts, Inc.,
Expo '92 included performances by (from left), Nikki Kimbrell,
Katie Wall, Cale Burrell, Allie Machella, Autumn Horton, and
Sara Mosseller.
Registration for fall semester dance classes will be held in Sep
tember at Discovery House, 15 Walnut Street, Tryon. Programs at
the facility are funded in part by local contributions and by a
Grassroots Grant from the N.C. Arts Council.
-Community Reporter
Local Equestrian
Olympic Connection
Local riding instructor
Annette Murphy has four for
mer students competing for
Bermuda in the Olympic
equestrian events in Barcelona.
Peter Gray, riding on the
3-day Event Team, is the most
experienced, this being his
fourth Olympics. He has also
been on two Pan Am Games
teams, winning team and indi
vidual medals.
Annette taught Peter through
his Pony Club years in Ber
muda, where she was Chief
Instructor, culminating in his
achieving his Pony Club A rat
ing in England.
M.J. Tumbridge and Nicola
Desousa were also members of
the Bermuda Pony Club for
several years. M.J. is now based
in Maryland and has been very
successful with two Advanced
Event horses. Nicola settled in
England and has had much suc
cess there campaigning three
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