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Mars Hill VFD Auto Show Set The annual Mars Hill auto show will be held July 26 and 27 at the Mars Hill Elementary School stadium. The event spon sored by the Mars Hill Volunteer Fire Dept. will also feature a Saturday night gospel singing beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday din ner will be served from noon until 2 p.m. Proceeds from the show will benefit the fire company. Davis Family Reunion July 27 Descendants of Garfield and Susie Rice Davis will hold their family reunion on July 27 at noon at the Old Mill Wheel on Laurel River. Those attending are asked to bring a covered dish. Slagle Family Reunion Planned The Slagle family reunion will be held on July 27 at the Beech Glen Community Center (old Beech Glen School) begin ning at 11 a.m. All family members and friends are invited to attend. Broyhill To Tour County July 25 Senator James Broyhill will tour Madison County towns on July 25. Sen. Broyhill will tour Marshall from 2 until 4 p.m. and will visit Mars Hill from 4 until 6 p.m. The Madison County Republican Party will sponsor a Jim Broyhill Appreciation Dinner at Madison H.S. on July 25 beginning at 7:30 p.m. All county residents are invited to at tend the dinner. ? .? Sierra Club Meets July 24 The Sierra Club will meet on July 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville. La Rue Bolick of Quality Forward will discuss how recycling can extend the life of landfills. The public is invited to attend. Neighbors In Need Resumes Regular Office Hours Neighbors In Need will resume its'Vegular weeKty'bffice hours beginning July 15 at the Marshall Presbyterian Church between the hours of 1:30 and 3 p.m. Applications for assistance will be taken by volunteers at that time. Adopt-A-Pet Day Planned In Mars Hill Saturday ; - ? Conner Homes Homes in Mars Hill will sponsor Adopt-A-Pet Day this Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Big Branch Rd. location. The adoption day is being sponsored with the Mitchell County Animal Rescue League. ?? Homeless dogs and cats will be available fo adoption for a $5 fee which includes the animal's first set of shots and deworm ing. Participants will also receive a certificate good for a dis count on the second set of shots and neutering. y. ? ? ?> FBEMC Plans Sunday Blackout Repairs Will Cause Power Loss | Much of Madison County will be without electrical power for up to four hours Sunday while crews repair a transmission line serving the Marshall substation French Broad Electric Membership Corp. officials have announced (hat power will be shut off fropt 1 until 5 p.m. on July 30 while crews make the need ed repairs on the Marshall 1 Commissioners Approve Half- Cent Sales Tax Schools To Receive $450,000 For Construction By ROBERT KOENfG The Madison County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a one-half cent increase in the sales tax Monday dur ing a special meeting. The commissioners also voted to ear mark proceeds from the half-cent increase for the county's schools. The measure was passed without opposition on a motion presented by Virginia Anderson of Hot Springs. The local option tax was approved by the General Assembly in Raleigh on June 25. The bill allows counties to impose an ad ditional half-cent sales tax in order to fund capital im provements to schools. A similar bill was approved during the 1984 short session of the legislature. The 1984 local option tax mandated that 40 percent of tax receipts be used for school capital construction. The 1986 bill also provides that at least 60 percent of tax receipts by used for school construction. On Monday, however, the county commissioners went the bill one step better by approving full allocation of the receipts for capital improvements. County commission chairman James Ledford told The News Record, "We are glad to be able to take this step. We hope that the Board of Education will use these funds wisely to improve our schools." An estimate prepared by the North Carolina School Board Association states that Madison County will receive some $450,950 in revenues during the first year the additional half cent is collected. The Madison County Board of Education cur WORKERS REPLACE 59-YEAR OLD ROOF on Marshall Elementary School last week. Passage of additional half-cent sales tax will make other improvements to county schools possible. rently receives about $160,000 per year from the half-cent tax first imposed in 1984. The 40-percent allocation from the 1984 half -cent tax was unchanged by Monday's decision. The increase in the local sales tax should give the Madison County Board of Education some $610,000 for capital im provements in the next year. The increase in the local sales tax is to become effective on September 1. School superintendent Robert L. Edwards was pleased with the county commissioners decision. Edwards said that the -i'onliniM-d on back |i?Rf County Workers To Receive Five Percent Raise Surplus funds from the 1983-86 budget will be used to give Madison County employees a five percent pay raise effective immediately. The county commissioners approved the pay increase Monday during a special meeting in the county cour thouse. County finance officer David Caldwell reported that the county had a surplus of some $33,000 remaining from the past year's budget. The surplus funds will be put into county employees' salaries. Commissioner Ervin Adams made the motion to ap prove the pay increase. Adams' mo tion was seconded by Virginia Ander son and was passed unanimously. Earlier, the commissioners ap proved a $7.8 million county budget that included no pay raise for county employees. Thfe pay raises will not apply to Tax Collector Harold Wallin, Sheriff E.Y. Ponder or Register of Deeds Jena Lee Buckner. The pay increases were to take ef fect July 1 according to Caldwell. In other business, the commis- . sioners met with Taylor Barnhill and Faye Boone of Beech Glen concern ing the Greater Ivy Senior Citizen Meal Site. Members of the Greater Ivy Community Development Club are interested in operating the meal site with volunteers. The county com missioners voted to close the meal site on July 1. The board also voted to approve a contract for construction of an addi tion to the Hot Springs Senior Citizens' Center. The commissioners also met with Mars Hill architect Wayne Roberts concerning the on-going repairs to the county courthouse. Tlie board ap proved a contract with Carolina Com fort Heating and Cooling for installa tion of air conditioning on the second and third floors of the courthouse. Total cost of the contract is $17,222. The commissioners have also scheduled a special meeting for July 28 at 1 p.m. in the county courthouse. Friday Night Dance Planned The Marshall Recreation Center Committee will sponsor a dance tommorow night at the center. The rock band Hard Knocks will perform. Admission is $3 each, $5 for couples. Doors open at 8 p.m. HUNDREDS ATTENDED CARNIVAL on Blannerhasset Island last Week. Five-day event was sponsored by the Mar shall VFD. Marshall Enjoys Budget Surplus Marshall's aldermen heard some good financial news Monday night at their monthly meeting in Town Hall. Town secretary Linda Dodson delivered the town's financial report and told the board members that the town had an unexpected surplus at the close of the 1965-M fiscal year. Although the monthly computer report did not include last-mlnut. budget amendments, Dodson said a nine of the fiscal at the DodMM told much bet , referring Mlast cooperative's tax liability con siderably, records indicate. In 1N4, FBEMC paid taxes totall ing $1,113,53 With the addition of the Capitola Dam, FBEMC's tax liability rose to $2B,343.18. Discoveries of past due taxes also accounted for a smaller portion of the increased tax revenues. Dodson said County Housing Authority Parker reported to the the Island Rd project and sewer im i Cody Rd. and Candler (Island Rd. pro ? muTsUll^ have been overcome. Parker is expected to meet with the board of aldermen and members of the town's planning board to discuss residents' objections to the project design later this week. Angie Simpson reported to the aldermen on the operation of the swimming pool Simpson said that she has encountered a number of pro blems, but things were generally run ning well. ! She said that the diving board had been broken, but would be replaced thanks to assistance from Zeno ! jty I iron content accounted for the pool's unclean appearance, but that county Health Dept director Ed Morton had inspected the water quality several times and pronounced the water safe for swimming. Main Street businessman George Pen land came before the board with several complaints regarding the town's police and water services. Penland also asked the board to en force the two-hour parking limit on Main Street, saying that lack of adr quate parking was hurting Marshall merchants. ?$ ..
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