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--- TRANSYLVANIA'S MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM By - Dr. Joanna Byers 1 Consulting Psychologist Forum On Drug Use And Abuse Difference? awful this ..jgs, gatherings, and the community about has been a very .. going. The young are you making such ;n you older people your beer?” On the saying, “Oh, my, how »» Our purpose in having these programs on drug abuse is not to point fingers at anyone. We do not want to persecute anyone. Our purpose is to let people know what is happening in Transylvania County. And there is evidence that alcohol abuse and drug abuse are hap pening here. Our secondary or indirect pur pose is to ask people to look at themselves. Are too many people dependent on the before din ner cocktail, the after dinner whiskey on the rocks, or a six-pack of beer while watching the sports revue ? Or dependent on uppers or down ers? Some young people are abusing alcohol. In fact I thought it was real funny when a drug user said, “we’re looking for a place to get away from the drunks!” But it isn’t funny, ha, ha!, it is rather tragic. Our young people are intel ligent, knowledgeable, have as many things as most young people. Most of them don’t need crutches to help them live. Can we say as much for the adults? Many kind of drugs including alcohol are used because they make the person “feel good”. They get a lift. They feel relaxed. But we can’t always go around relaxed,, can we? Sometimes it is good to be a little anx ious. At times it is good to feel a little pep ped up. We do a better job then. We learn more quickly and our work gets done more rapidly. But sometimes we need to relax. And this is perhaps where we need to stop and think a little about how to relax without help from drugs and alcohol. ^ Some people sit down in front of the tele vision rad igk&while being entertained. Other pe<rtile.'^fe^f6r %p6rf31iRS'fTOties as a'*Nfexathjit .. from wtfrk. Still others play cards or games. When these activities are a means ' of recrea tion they are relaxing. One of the means 6f relaxing used to be conversation. How many times recently haw you had a real conversation with another person or a group of people. One woman I knew used to take her knitting with her whenever she knew she would have to wait on someone. The remark was, “I knit and the time goes by so rapidly I never have the sense Brevard Rotarians To Host District Assembly June 14 Charles M. Grier, District Governor of kotary, District 767, visited the Brevard Bo tary club on Monday and ’ announced that the next Dis trict Assembly of Kotary would be held at Brevard College in June The Brevard Rotary club will be host to the meeting, and more than 200 Rotarians will be in attendance at the As sembly on Monday, June 14th. Governor Grier announced that Workshops and a Gen eral Session would be held with a Fellowship luncheon at 1:00 o’clock. The Workshops will be as follows: Group I - Club Presidents Group II - Club Secretaries Group IH - Club Service Di rectors Group IV - Vocational Ser vice Directors Group V - Community Ser Vivce Directors Group VI - International of waiting so I don’t g< wait.” Interest in many ; people to relax. One pe said to me, “I’m too no what is going on and know!” The same co ing pot. If you smol not only don't know w longer care. So this week let’s 1 many “crutches” are w through the day? E answer for ourselves. Wi you could be proud to child or teenager? Service Directors Group VII - Rotary Founda tion Committee Chairmen Group VIII . Bulletin Edi tors Continued Workshops and buzz sessions will follow the luncheon. Rev. Otis Wheelhouse, president of the Brevard Rotary club, presided over the meeting Monday, and he introduced Governor Mor rison. Judge Robert T. Gash, Chief Judge of the 29th Judicial District, was the principal speaker on the program Mon day. He wasintroduced by At torney and Rotarian John K. Smart He outlined the new Juve nile Court that was set up when the entire court sys tem was reorganized. Juvenile cases are now handled by the District courts instead of by Clerks of Court As it is now, the Judges have the assistance of the Departments of Social Ser vices as well as the Pro it angry at having to ireas of living allows rson who did not drink sy to drink. I want to if I get drunk I won’t uld be said for imok :e it continuously you bat is going on, you no ook at ourselves. How: ' e using to help us ich of us will have to 11 your answer be one report to a questioning . " Slate of North Carolina County pf Transylvania Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust executed by Richard A. Robinson and wife, Lois H. Robinson to E. Gene Ramsey, Trustee for L. E. Bagwell, Jr. and wife, Beatsie DOUBLE S£fJ4 AT'fra . 5! i&S2 111 iO mmimmsh 4-Lane Asheville High’ i83-‘99Hb* Au°} tmT € lb nod?. M. Bagwell* which said Deed of Trust bears date of the 5th day of September, 1968, and is recorded in the Office of the Register ■ of Deeds for Tran sylvania County in Deed of Trust Book 81, Page 563, de fault haying been made in the payment' of the indebtedness thereby secured and said Deed of Trust being by the terms thereof subject to foreclosure, the undersigned Trustee, E. Gene Ramsey, will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the Courthouse door in Brevard, North Carolina, at noon on Wednesday the 16th day of June, 1971, the property con veyed in said Deed of Trust the same lying and being in Brevard Township, Transyl vania County and more par ticularly described as follows: BEGINNING on an iron pipe in the Eastern margin of Hill ■view Avenue, common corner of Lots 12 and 13* and runs thence with the common boundary line between Lots 12 and 13, S. 50 deg. 44 min. E. 121.5 ft.-to an iron pipe, com mon corner of Lots 12, 13 and 20; thenpe with the common boundary line between Lots 13 pand 20, N. 38 deg. 16 min. E. 70 ft. to an iron pipe, common corner Qf Lots 20,13 and 14; thence with the common boundary line between Lots 13 and 14, N. Sgtdeg, 44 min. W. 119.6 ft. to an iron pipe in the Eastern margin of Hillview Avenue, common corner of Lots principal given bj batlon officers in dealing with juvenile cases. 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