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Founded Jan. 31, 1928 by Seth M. Vining
(Consolidated with the Polk County News 1955)
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Vol. 65 - No. 128
The weather Wednesday: high
89, low 62, hum. 62 percent.
The excitement is starting to
build as the finishing touches
arc put on the new Polk County
High School. One month from
today, students will start stuff
ing their things into the lockers
and the days of two high
schools will be history.
Unfortunately, our memories
and habits won't conform to the
new reality as easily as that.
Just the other day, we were
writing a letter about the new
high school, slipped and called
it Tryon High. It will take
awhile, but before long no one
will make that mistake any
more.
Hail to the new high school
and a unified Polk County!
What's happening:
Internationally known pianist
Scott Watkins will be in concert
tonight at 8 at the Tryon Fine
Arts Center in a benefit perfor
mance for Steps to Hope.
Tickets are on sale at Kelly's
Gift Shop and The Flower Cot
tage in Columbus, Nations
Bank and Tryon Federal Sav
ings and Loan in Tryon and
Columbus; The Bookshelf,
Cowan's and The Tryon Daily
Bulletin in Tryon.
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TRYON. N.C. 28782
Millard's Dream Of
Job In Polk County
Comes True Aug. 31
"I can hardly believe my good
fortune," Andy Millard says as
he walks the halls of the near
ly-completed $14 million Polk
County High School which will
recievc students Aug. 31.
For years, the 35-year-old
newly-appointed principal has
wanted to live in the mountains
and work in a small school sys
tem. And to hear him tell it, not
just any small town would do.
"I wanted to come to this
small town," he says emphati
cally. Millard is not exactly a
stranger to these parts. His
parents moved to Spartanburg
from their native Michigan
when he was a teenager.
Because their house wasn't
ready when they arrived, the
family ended up renting a house
for a few months on Lake Lan
ier. He has fond memories of
swimming in the lake that year
and falling in love with the
mountains.
Millard eventually graduated
from Dorman High in Spartan
burg and went on to attend
Presbyterian College in Clinton,
S.C.
As a child growing up in
Michigan, Millard went to
small schools, and he says it
made him fee) valued. His own
experience and intuition tells
him that students do better in
smaller schools. But he backs
this up by quoting from a Car
negie Report that sets the ideal
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FRIDAY, JULY 31,1992
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Green Creek Sprouts Legitimate Success
The sudden closing of the Ameri-Sprout Co. in Landrum has left
many people curious about the world of bean sprout growing,
marketing and consumption. Is there such a thing as a legitimate
bean sprout enterprise or is this industry akin to other get-rich-
quick schemes like mink ranches or the proverbial chicken farm?
To answer these and other questions, The Bulletin sent reporter
Reen Smith to investigate an established bean sprout operation last
week. She met with Lee Ewing (seen above) owner and operator
of Green Creek Sprouts. Smith's report on the thriving sprout
farm appears inside today's Bulletin.
St. Luke's Wrangles
Plane Ride To Seattle
For Immobilized Boy
The airline fare wars didn't
affect the ride six-year-old
Preston Doheny needed this
week.
His ticket would likely have
cost $10,000, said Jackie Hart
man, discharge planner for St.
Luke's Hospital.
Doheny, who was in town to
visit his grandmother, Mrs.
Edward Delehanty, was
seriously injured while being
pulled in an inner tube behind a
ski jet.
He apparently ran up on an
object in the water which frac
tured the neck of his femur,
that is the large leg bone
between the knee and the thigh.
Not only is this a painful
break, but it is dangerously near
arteries. And as a six-year-
old's leg has a lot of growing to
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