Oreater Ivy Represents County In Beautification Judcine Fridav Judging (o select the organised rural areas in Weatern North Carolina that have done the moat outatan rt ding Job in beautification and ?Improvement of the visual en II vironment during the year will il'lw held Aug. SMI. 'mi The occasion will be the area judging of the communi ty club division of WNC 3 Beautiful, the beautification competition of the annual Western North Carolina Com munity Development Pro gram. Nearly 100 rural and subur ban areas have participated in the year-round beautification project this year. Sixteen com munities will represent their respective counties in this week's judging finals. This year's judging team in cludes Mrs. Jean Webb, ex ecutive director. Quality For ward, Asheville; Steve Hen dricks, landscape architect, N.C. National Forests; and Harry G. Silver, retired district extension supervisor and horticultural specialist of Weaverville. Wednesday, the judging team will begin its tour of county finalists starting at 9 a.m. with a visit to Stony Knoll, representing Polk County. From there, the team will travel to Barker Heights in Henderson County, Williamson Creek in Tran sylvania County, Cashiers in Jackson County, and finish the day at Cullasaja in Macon County. Thursday's schedule begins at 8:30 a.m. with a visit to South Hominy in Buncombe County, then to North Hominy in Haywood County, Yellow Hill on the Cherokee Indian Lions Sponsor S i? . 'The Miracle : Worker' i "The Miracle Worker", a play baaed on the life of Helen : Keller, will be presented at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville at S p.m., Sept. 8. j The play is sponsored by the I 48 Lions Clubs in District 3X-A ; in co-operation with the . Haywood County Arts Council ' and Haywood Technical - Institute. The Moonshine Players are ; under the direction of Cheryl .JSarp, a dram director from ;.|Uleigh. The play was 'presented at Lake Junaluska i'knd received good press .Reviews. The two leading characters, * Ginny Hargrove, who plays the part of Helen Keller, and Joan Robb, who {days the part of Anne Sullivan, are convincing in the physical and psychological struggles in breaking the communication barrier. The Lions are encouraging chruches to organize and provide transportation for youth groups to visit Asheville and attend the performance. The play has been on Broadway and national television. The Lions objectives ? to provide clean entertainment that Is educational and in spirational are met by this play. It is a play that should be seen by the youth of our area. All profits from the per formance will go to the Marjorie McCune Memorial Center for the Handicapped located in Black Mountain. The cast, made up entirely of Haywood County residents, have worked long and hard under the expert direction of | Miss Earp, and deaerves the ?upport of the public. Cystic Fibrosis Benefit Sing The fourth annual Goepel Sing, to benefit the Cyatk Flbroeta Foundation, will be held Sept. S at 7:30 p.m. at Moore Auditorium of Man Hill College Oroupa taking part include th? New Hope Quartet of , Bobbins ville. the Happy Hearts Quartet of AiherlMe. ? Aaheville, the Glory Dawn Quartet of Man {fill, and the Redeemed Quartet of Reservation, Grassy Branch in Swain County and Unaka in Cherokee County. The Friday schedule gets "nder way at ? a.m. with a four of Union Mills community in Rutherford County, Bridgeport-Enon in Burke County, Ashford in McDowell County, Linville Falls in Avery County, Newdale in Yancey County, and Greater Ivy in Madison County. Each community Is allotted 45 minutes for Judging. Area judging involving county winners of the non community club division of WNC Beautiful, for organiza tions and groups other than community clubs, will be held in early September. Eleven county winners, representing Buncombe, Burke, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Polk-Rutherford and Tran sylvania counties, are com peting in this division. Judging in this division will be dooe from standard report books completed by the competitors, rather than by on-site inspec tion. Announcement of winners of both divisions and present* tion of casta awards totaling 11,000 will be made at a lun cheon meeting of the WNC Community Development Program Committee schedul ed for noon, Sept. IS, at the S* W Cafeteria in the Asheville Mall. Awards in the community club division are being provid ed by ADOA Corp. in Biltmore, General Electric ? _ ? c Co. of East Flat Rock, Asheville Federal Savings * Loan Association, Gerber Pro ducts Co., Clyde Savings ft Loan Association, First Federal Savings ft Loan Association, Wachovia Bank and Trust Co. and J.D. Jackson Associates Gallery of Homes. Prize sponsors for the non community club category are 3 The Bank of Asheville, K-Mart, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Asheville, Western Carolina Bank ft Trust Co., Clyde Savings and Loan Association, First Federal Savings and Loan, Carolina Federal Savings ft Loatr and Gerber. Purpose of the beautifica tion program, sponsored by the Western North Carolina Development Association and the N. C. Agricultural Exten sion Service, ia to encourage communities and groups to conduct organized clean-up programs or special beautifies tion projects, and to recognize those doing a par ticularly good Job. Overall judging of the WNC Community Development Program, which involves too organized rural and suburban areas in Western North Carolina, will take place later this fall.

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