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* - 'v*; > ? : ' '? -1SPP Business Development Takes Leaders The Fierce Flotilla " " *?on" photo These ducks and geese seen cruising about Lake Louise at Weaverville recently have become a source of complaints from some town residents, who have complained about the early morning noise and the mess the birds leave. The geese Weaverville Seeks Aid For Water, Sewer Project Aldermen To Hold Public Meeting On Water Plan By H.D. KOONTZ III The News Record Editor Weaverville's Board of Aldermen approved two resolutions Monday night supporting grant applications for proposed water and sewer im provement projects Town Manager Charles Home said the Ivy River water project is estimated to cost up to 94.9 million, and that the town would try to get as much of that amount from the state as possible, although he held little hope for the state funding the entire project. "We'll try to get as much as we can, but there is a limited amount of funds and it will be very competitive," Home said The second resolution supports the town's proposed sewer project, estimated to cost about $400,000 in state loans. The deadline for submitting grant applications is Sept. 30. The aldermen also agreed to hold a special meeting at 7 p.m. next Mon day, Sept. 26, to discuss the town's water and sewer needs study compil ed by McGill Associates of Asheville I In other matters the aldermen: -Agreed to hold a public meeting Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. to discuss extraterritorial jurisdiction concerning the east side or town. The meeting will be held at the Weavervilie Primary School. -Agreed to spend $50 in town funds to buy red ribbons for the national Red Ribbon Drug Awareness Week pro gram the last week of October. The aldermen also agreed to cut a sym bolic ribbon kicking off the week Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. -Agreed to hold a public meeting con cerning rezoning of the Reems Creek Golf Club property recently added to the town. The meeting will be held at the town hall at 6:45 p.m. Oct. 17. -Agreed to award a sewer line in stallation contract to Wheeler Con struction Co., which submitted the low bid of $79,1)60. Five other com panies bid on the project, with the highest being $116,090. -Agreed to have town workers cull * the gaggle of geese now at Lake. Louise, where the birds have become a nuisance in recent weeks. Home said several reports of ?CMtbiaed on back page jg. J| also allegedly have bitten visitors to the lake, the town's board of aldermen learned Monday night. No one knows where the birds, now numbering about 60, came from; one month ago there was just a handful of the ducks and geese at the lake. French Broad River Week ended on a positive note Sunday morning with free whitewater raft rides offered to anyone who was willing to help clean up the banks of the river for a certain stretch with the rafts supplied by Carolina Wilderness, the French Broad Rafting Company and Nantahala Outdoor Center. R.T. Koenig photo No Arrests Yet In Courthouse Fire By H.D. KOONTZ III The Newt Record Editor Law enforcement authorities are stiii investigating the Madison Coun ty courthouse fire and offering 913,000 for information leading to the con vie Lion of the arsonists involved in the Labor Day Eve vandalism. No arrests have been made. Madison County Sheriff Dedrick Brown said several suspects have been questioned about the ipcident, which caused an estimated $100,000 damage to the 81-year-old building. No records were destroyed in the fire and no money was stolen, but the main courtroom was devastated by a fire set next to the judge's bench. Two other fires set in trash cans downstairs in the Register of Deeds office and the Clerk of Court's office ?CeatiMed on Page t Detective Work Has Its Rewards .j?S5S=.. more than a crime solverP He's got to be pert lawyer, part enough to ?tand the daily diet of tee ng people at their went. Madison County native (toward nggim. now a detective with the al pnx ed in ?Hn| and crime ?cen? technique. Kartlw this month, Higgim. who I wit* the sherin s depart raeolfor seven y tmts rwcvod a MLV ? - - Ms Of the com at e pec al Hioctt ( Q ,1 State Official Says No 'Magic' Involved By H.D. KOONTZ III The Newt Record Editor The president of the North Carolina Rural Development Education Center told a group of Madison Coun ty business leaders Friday that economic development is not a magic term. "And it is not just industrial recruitment," said Billy Ray Hall, speaking to about 24 persons gathered in the French Broad Baptist Center near Mars Hill. The three main ingredients needed for successful economic growth in rural areas such as Madision County are the area's human resouces, its land resources and its capital resources. Labor, land and money, simply put. The Friday seminar and brain storming session was sponsored by the Madison County Chamber of Commerce, which has been selected by the Tennessee Valley Authority as the sponsoring agency for a pilot pro gram on economic development. "Under this program," said Chamber President Jeanne Hoffman, "the chamber has just completed a new Travel and Tourism brochure, received matching funds for a visitors center at Mars Hill College and been approved for matching funds for this Leadership Madison County educational program." Hall pointed out the decline of manufacturing and agricutlure as staples of rural area economies in North Carolina. No longer can rural counties look to big industries and farming to employ the majority of its people. In the short-term, counties can of fer tax credits as incentives for new businesses to locate in their area; in the long-term, the N.C. Rural -Continued on Page 3 Spring Creek Parents Seek State Help By H.D. KOONTZ III K Soroe Sorfflg^'c^k parent* phqfto seek state help is establishing a non public elementary school in their area. Following last week's action by the Madison County Board of Education approving a consolidation plan which calls for the eventual closing of Spr ing Creek Elementary School and consolidation of others into one, new middle school in the Marshall-Walnut area, some residents of Spring Creek were angry. But not surprised. It was a reaction "of anger and disappointment that the board did what it said it was going to do," said s Bill Barnito, a spokesman for con- /S Nidation plan opponents In Spring ' Creek. "And the reaction of parents is they are still not gwng to send their children to Hot Springs." The consolidation plan calls for the merging of Hot Springs and Spring Creek enrollments into one school at Hot Springs. Other county schools will see a dip in their enrollments as grades 6-8 are shifted to the proposed new W.5 million middle school to be built in the Marshall-Walnut area. The county has won approval for -Coatlnaed oa back page The Madison County High School Fellowship of Christian Athletes raised more than $4,000 over the weekend by see* sawing the entire weekend and soliciting pledges. Movie star Dan Akyroyd chipped in a $100 bill Sunday en route back to Asheviile after filming some movie shots at Hot Springs ;?? earlier and Dom De Louise signed autographs for the youths. | 0 H.D. Koonti photo Moviemakers Leave Town DAVE H1NCHEN exciting thing ever to Springs," remarked one young Hot Springs resident. "Al least since the cow came down the Appalachian Trail last said another mm ttsy | the filming of scenes In I quiet I ? pi ruction cmws arriv
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