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Black J'toui.tain Library
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Black hom.taAn, , .c. 28711
Jonathan Jvey, age 5, may be the youngest
businessman in Biach Mountain. Faced with going
to Disney Worid with his mom, dad and sister
Ashiey, with no change in his pochet, Jonathan
mixed up some iemonade, siiced o/f the coohies /or
his mother to bahe, and he was in business iast
Friday. Jonathan and Ashiey, age two-and-a-hai/,
are the chiidren o/Sandra and Marh Jvey, Oahiand
Drive.
Sourwood Fest<ya!
comm!ttees make
p!ans for August
Members of the Sourwood Festival
Committee met Monday to continue
pians for this year's Aug. 5-9 festival.
The festival will be compressed to
five days and most events will take
place on Cherry Street, Broadway and
Sutton Avenue.
An important new feature this year
will be an information booth, providing
schedules, maps and other information
to festival-goers.
While plans are still in the making,
here are some of the ideas committee
members are working on.
New festival features will include a
donkey softball game, a Jeep caravan
and a gospel singing.
Black Mountain firemen will chal
lenge another group, probably announc
ers from WWNC Radio, in the donkey
softball game.
The Jeep caravans will probably take
place on Old Toll Road, going to Mt.
Mitchell and back
The gospel singing will take place on
Friday or Saturday night and will
indude several vocal and instrumental
groups.
Street food services will be beefed up
to include barbecue, broiled trout and
Chinese delicacies.
The parade kicking off the Sourwood
Festival, scheduled for 4 p.m., Aug. 5,
will travel a shorter route this year and
will involve more local participation.
Reigning over the parade, and all
Sourwood Festival activities, will be a
Little Miss Sourwood.
The Sourwood Road Race attracted
200 people last year and is expected to
bring out 3-400 runners this summer.
The golf tournament may also include
a hole-in-one contest on the 13th hole,
sponsored by the Firemen's Auxiliary.
Street dances will be held from 8-11
p.m., one Thursday in Swannanoa and
one Saturday in Black Mountain.
Lee Hutchins will hitch up his teams
to wagons and provide free trans
portation.
Many other traditional events are
being planned for this year, including
the popular "Ugly Dog Contest."
The Sourwood Festival Committee,
comprised of about 20 representatives,
will meet again in May.
Detoxification Unit moved
to Rehabiiitation Center
The Detoxification Unit at Western
Carolina Center, Black Mountain Facil
ity, a drying-out center for the intoxi
cated, was transferred to the grounds of
the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center
(ARC) in Biack Mountain this week.
Weather
review
April 21-high 65, low 42 degrees.
April 22-high 69, low 36 degrees.
April 23-high 72, low 50 degrees; .13
inches precipitation.
April 24-high 65, low 50 degrees; .27
inches precipitation
April 25-high 63, low 41 degrees.
April 26-high 77, low 38 degrees.
April 27-high 82, low 49 degrees.
.V -3
Courtesy of WPGW
Radio National
Weather Service
station, Biack
Mountain.
Members of the Medicai Peer Review
Foundation studied the center earlier
this year and recommended that a
doctor be on duty at ail times in the
detox unit. At that time, a doctor was
on duty during the day, with registered
nurses taking over for the night.
Expansion wouid cost the state
(180,000 a year to run the unit. North
Carolina Department of Human Re
sources director, William P. Johnson,
recommended closing of the detox unit
and replacement with a locally funded,
rather than state-funded, facility.
Western Carolina Center, where the
unit was located until this week, is a
resident home for the mentally retarded
funded by the state.
The ARC has in the past provided
long-term care, but not short-term care
for those drying out, which takes about
three days.
In a written announcement of the
closing of the detox unit, Johnson said
that admissions will be made by
appointment only now. Arrival at the
Center without an appointment may
result in a denied admission, he said.
And if now space is available, it is the
responsibility of the person accompany
ing the patient to return him to his home
or community.
The detoxification unit may be moved
to the Blue Ridge Mental Health Center
in Asheville under a private corporation
later this year.
Meeting schedu!ed May 20
Pubtic input sought by DOT on highway priorities
The state Board of Transportation will
hold a series of public meetings that will
help it decide how to re-order highway
construction priorities as a result of
severely limited financial resources.
Highway projects involved are those
scheduled in the 1980-86 Transportation
Improvement Program (TIP) that was
last updated in October, 1979. The TIP
is the department's basic planning
document for all transportation im
provement programs.
Emergency Medica) Services Week this week in N.C.
Harry Oahs and Chuch Messer are two o/ Biach Mountain's /uii time emergency medicai technicians.
County has up-to-date services
Someday an emergency medical
technician could be the oniy thing
standing between you and the Pearly
Gates.
So it is good to know Buncombe
County Emergency Medical Services
are among the most modem in the
state, according to EMS director Jerry
VeHaun. Of North Carolina's 100
counties, only 25 or 30 have "IV
technicians " and only 12 counties now
have paramedics.
Buncombe County EMS has people
training now as paramedics at Asheviile
-Buncombe Technical College, who will
be on the job by next spring, probably
February or March, VeHaun said.
Paramedics can administer drugs and
perform other emergency procedures
that medical technicians are not trained
to do.
IV technicians, which Buncombe
County already has, can start intraven
ous solutions upon order from Memorial
Mission Hospital at the scene of an
accident or enroute to the hospital.
Buncombe County employs 34 full
time technicians and 12 part time.
Those working in Black Mountain are:
Harry Oaks, Chuck Messer, Rick Pat
ton, James Goodman and Don Danner.
EMTs in the fire department who assist
are: Tim Raybum, Dennis Cooper,
Robert Watkins, Marion Godfrey, Pete
Post and Bill Jones.
Po!ice and fire report
Arson is suspected in
Swannonoa house fire
Black Mountain Fire Department
Black Mountain firemen assisted
Swannanoa Volunteer Fire Department
at a house fire on Buckeye Cove Road
April 21.
Arson is suspected in the fire which
You know it's spring when a!! the trees and street sign posts
in Biack Mountain sprout yard saie signs. Rachei and Gary
Robinson put this one up iast week on Sutton A venue.
destroyed an empty house before
firemen arrived about midnight, sum
moned by an anonymous phone cail.
The house, owned by an eideriy man
who iives in a nursing home, had been
vacant for about a year.
The State Bureau of Investigation is
investigating the fire.
On April 25, firemen extinguished a
chimney fire on New Bern Avenue.
Black Mountain Police Department
In the past seven days, Biack Moun
tain Poiice arrested three drunk drivers
and two women shoplifters at Roses.
inside.
Roseann Roseanadana, portrayed!.
by Bi!!y Edd Wheeier, gives advice
to the iovetorn in Carver's Sugar
Daddy's Revue.
Photos on page 4.
The annua] meetings, however, will
be held against the backdrop of what
Transportation Secretary Tom Brad
shaw calied "the severe impact" on the
TIP of sharp increases in the costs of
highway work and declining state
highway revenues.
' "With this very severe problem
facing us, we strongly urge the public to
help us make a very careful review of
the projects already in the 1980-86
TIP," Bradshaw said. "We want the
people of the state to share with us their
opinions on what our priorities ought to
be in view of our funding crisis."
The Division 13 meeting, including
Buncombe, Burke, Madison,
McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford and
Yancey counties, will be held May 20
at 2 p.m. at the Asheville-Buncombe
Technical College, Simpson Admin
istration Building Auditorium, Victoria
Road, Asheville. Registration for
speakers will begin at 1 p.m.
The findings of the blue ribbon study
commission headed by former Gov. Dan
K. Moore will be reviewed at the
meetings. "We will also bring people
up to date on the status of projects in
their particular area and provide them a
summary of our projected revenues and
the costs of construction," Bradshaw
said.
Local officials have been invited by
Gov. Jim Hunt, Bradshaw and members
of the Transportation Board to make
recommendations on highway and other
transportation priorities at the sessions.
Bradshaw also issued a "Special plea"
for citizens from all walks of life to
participate in the meetings.
Road Race
to be he!d
May 9
The sixth annual "Clean Air Road
Race," sponsored by the American
Lung Association of N.C., Western
Region and the Asheville Track Club,
will be held Saturday, May 9 at Warren
Wilson College. Registration for the
13.1 mile (half marathon), five mile run
and one mile walk-fun run will begin at
8 a m.
Entry fees will be $5 for the 13.1 and
five mile runs, and will include a "Clean
Air Road Race" t-shirt. Late entrants
will receive their shirts by mail.
The walk-fun run fee will be 50 cents,
with t-shirts available for an additional
!3.
Awards will include locally made
crafts, trophies and plaques. The first
50 13.1 milers will also receive a canvas
draw-string bag.
Patches will be given to all partici
pants in the one-mile walk-fun run.
Other special awards will be given to
those with the most participants in all
events, such as schools, businesses,
clubs, etc. The youngest and oldest
finishers in the 13.1 and five mile runs
and the family with the most runners
will also be awarded special prizes.
All courses are run over scenic rural
countryside with very little traffic.
For more information, send a self
addressed stamped envelope to Clear
Air Road Race, P.O. Box 7334, Ashe
ville, N.C. 28807 or call 252-2071.