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Byard Ray Folk Festival
Set For Aug. 17 In Brevard
The ninth annual Byard Ray Folk Festival will be held at the
Brevard Music Center on August 17 beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Workshops featuring guitar, Fiddle and banjo will begin at 1
p.m. and an informal concert is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
Admission at the gate is $5 for adults, $2 for children under
16. Advance sale tickets are available for $4 and $1 from the
Transylvania County Chamber of Commerce, W. Main Street,
Brevard.
For more information, call 883-3700.
Tobacco Field Day Set For Aug. 1
The annual Madison County Burley Tobacco Field Day will
be held on Thursday, Aug. 1 on the Roy Amnions farm in Mars
Hill. Registration will begin at 9 a.m.
The tour is co-sponsored by the Madison County
Agricultural Extension Service and the Burley Growers
Association.
The field day will feature discussions on disease, control,
varieties, fertilization and sod planting. There will also be an
update for farmers on the latest developments in the federal
tobacco program. A free lunch will be served and there will be
drawings for numerous prizes.
For more information on the field day, contact Wiley DuVall
at 649-2411.
Spring Creek VFD Fair
The Spring Creek Volunteer Fire Dept. will sponsor a fair on
Aug. 10 beginning at 2 p.m. at the fire station.
Refreshments, blue grass music and clogging will be
featured. The Cripple Creek and Spring Creek Cloggers are
among the groups expected to perform. Proceeds from the
fair will benefit the fire company.
A meeting wil be held in the Spring Creek VFD station on
Aug. 7 at 7:30 p.m. for persons interested in continuing educa
tion classes offered by Asheville-Buncombe Technical Col
lege. The school is prepared to offer instruction in the Spring
Creek community if enough interest is shown.
All Spring Creek area residents interested in participating
in continuing education, as well as persons who wish to teach
classes, are urged to attend.
For more information, call Linda Deyo at 622-7329.
Marshall Masons To Meet Aug. 5
There will be a stated communication of the French Broad
Lodge No. 292 AF&AM on Aug. 5 at 8 p.m. in the Marshall
Lodge Hall.
American Legion To Meet
American Legion Post No. 317 in Marshall will meet on Aug.
1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Legion Hall on Back Street.
New Students Must Register
Principal David Wyatt of Madison H.S. reminds all new
students in Madison County in grades nine through 12 should
register for classes in the school's Guidance Office. Hie office
is open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
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Deadline for all Community Calendar announcements .is
Monday at noon.
? MADISON ' ; " I - f ? '
COUNTY I IBRARY
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1 eacher Assignments
The Madison County Board of
Education announced teacher ap
pointments for the up-coming school
year following a lengthy special
meeting last Thursday night in Mar
shall. Principals of the county's eight
schools met with the board during the
special called meeting
The appointments were made bas
ed on an unofficial estimate of
teacher alocations from state of
ficials in Raleigh. Based on the cur
rent enrollment of Madison County
schools, 106 state-funded teachers
have been allocated for the up
coming school year. The state Board
of Education was to meet in Raleigh
on Monday to approve the county
allocations.
Madison High School, with an
enrollment of approximately 890
students, was awarded 29 teaching
positions and 16 vocational education
instructors for the up-coming school
year.
Assigned to Madison H.S. are
teachers Beverly Hall. Linda Banks,
Enloe Boone, Jack Crowe, Teddy
Cody, Peggy Cutshall, Karen Dil
mgham, Nancy Ferguson, June
Gosnell, Paul Gunter, Janet Hall,
Ricky McDevitt, Dean Norton. Harry
Overby, Barbara Penland. Frances
Ramsey, Pam Ramsey. Sandra Ran
dolph, Mary Sprinkle, Rex Sprinkle,
Jeff Treadway, Patricia Waldrop,
James Wallin, Ronnie Wallin. Larry
West, Carol Whitt, Elsbery Wyatt,
Alda Jean Young and Louie Zimmer
man.
Vocation education in^ructors g
assigned to Madison H.S for the y
1985-86 school year include James
Allen, Steve Burns, Jack Cole, Carol u
Evans, Harvey Franklin, Linda a
Gardner, Norris Gentry, Sheila y
Ramsey, Winfred Ramsey, Covin
Rathbone, John Ray, Karen Sams,
Bruce Sprinkle, Lucile Sprinkle and
Anita Ward.
Karen Blevins, Don Narrel, Mc
Clelland Rice, Glenwood Walin, San
dra Tolley, Judy Sears, Peggy Ander
son, Sheila Barnhill and Elmer
Chandler were also appointed to in
struct in various programs at the
school such as drivers' education and
in-school suspension classes.
Support personnel Elizabeth
Clayton, Elaine Thomas and Judy
Grigg were also assigned to Madison
H.S. ,
Eleven teachers and ten aides were
assigned to Marshall Primary
School. The teachers named are
Robena Adams, Norma Bali, Theresa
Banks. Deborah Boone, Hilda Fisher.
June Gahagan, Jean Hunter. Othella
Ogle. Sandra Reeves, Donna Rice
and Vickie Carver Aides assigned to
the school include, Helen Brigman.
Linda Buckner, Virginia Cody, Marie
Fender, Jane Goforth, Cathy Gosnell,
Deborah Norton, Maxine Snelson.
Catherine Stills and Sue Vilcinskas.
Laurel School received 10 teachers,
including Betty Jane Ramsey, Daisy
Franklin, Joyce Thomas, Barbara
Ramsey, Lena Norton, Harvey
Franklin, James Shelton, Kathy
helton, Rita Norton and Christa
/allin.
Eight teachers were assigned to
/alnut School, including Kathy
dams, Debi Baker, Winnie Broglin,
/anda Capps, Catherine Pythian,
Keith Ray, Jeter Sherlin and Larry
Wyatt.
Marshall Elementary School was
assigned 12 teachers, including Don
nie Banks, Juanita Boone. Bety
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1 9-23 Accident
AN ILLINOIS WOMAN ESCAPED SERIOUS INJURY Thursday afternoon at
the intersection of U.S. l9-2.'i and llwy. 213. Mars IIUI Rescue Squad and VFD
responded to the two-car wreck, but were not needed. Damage to both cars
was considerable.
Weaverville Dismisses
Acting Police Chief
EUGENE RICE
By ROBERT KOENIG
Eugene Rice was named as
Weaverville's acting police chief last
Friday following the dismissal of
former acting police chief David
Lankford.
Rice, 28, becomes the town's third
police chief in less than a month. The
dismissed chief was named earlier
this month to replace Steve Woodson,
who resigned from the force on July
5.
Rice was appointed following a
special called meeting of the town
council at which Lankford was
dismissed. A Weaverville resident for
the past 9 years, the new acting chief
has been a member of the force since
May, 1984 Prior to joining the
Weaverville police force, he served
as a deputy with the Buncombe Coun
ty Sheriff's Dept. for three years.
Town manager Larry Sprinkle told
reporters that Lankford was dismiss
ed for "Failing to cooperate with
other administrative and office per
sonnel." He declined to further
elaborate on the dismissal.
Lankford has charged that his
dismissal was politically motivated.
Attempts to contact the former chief
by telephone were unsuccessful, but
the 41-year old former acting chief
was quoted in published reports as
saying he was involved in a power
struggle with the town manager.
Friday's firing reduces the town
police force to two full-time officers.
Rice said the full-time officers are be
ing assisted by members of the police
auxiliary.
The Town Council is expected to
decide on a permanent police chief
and other poliec appointments when
they meet on Aug. 19.
Snrintr Creek Foundation Works To Build Community
By EMZABEfH D. SQUIRE
"We want to keep our children here in Spring Creek.
Now they have to leave to get jobs," says Shirley Led
ford "And," she adds, "We want people here who want to
work to be able to work."
So Mrs. Ledford and others in the area have put in an
incredible number of volunteer hours organizing the Spr
ing Creek Foundation, a non-profit, worker-owned cor
poration They've also organized a related mutual
association through which members of the commutity
can hope to make a profit. Hie foundation currently has
60 members, and cash in hand. . ,
The foundation has already received $3,950 in grants
and is applying for special loans available to coops.
Members are also experimenting with new crops that
might replace burley tobacco and taking steps to lease
and renovate the old agricultural building at Spring
CTeek School.
Members expect to put in many mere volunteer hours
preparing the building to serve as a co-op center The
members btvt asked flay Sawyer of
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man, Shirley Ledford is the secretary and Alvin
Kirkpatrick serves as treasurer.
John Artlee, who retired to Spring Oeek after years of
teaching at Duke University, is described not only as the
foundation's moving spirit, but also as its "leg man,"
hauling and traveling whenever necessary
Mrs. Ledford adds that Carolyn Llewellyn, a practising
attorney, has contributed at least 40 volunteer hours on
the foundation's legal affairs.
Mrs. Ledford, herself, figures that she's put in about
600 volunteer hours in organizing the co-op Merrita
Chapman and Robert Rollard are also credited with hav
ing contributed many hours to the effort.
In addition to the volunteers, the group has also receiv
ed plenty of practical advice from oUside experts. Bob
Gonia, the Tennessee Valley Authority' s regional plan
ner and Brian Crutchfield of TV A have been helpful, con
tributing financial and technical assistance in growing
new crops such as Japanese shiitake mushrooms The
TV A advisor* have offered assistance in co-operation