What does the weH-dressed kid wear on the opening morning of a brand new school? Brand new sneakers, that's what. !n every coior of the rainbow. Students shuffied their new snea kers-some reiuctantiy, some eager ly-into the new section of the Back Mountain Rimary School for the first time Monday morning. The $1.6 million buiiding houses 454 students in grades two through five this year, as weii as 17 classroom teachers, a librarian and additional resource teachers. The new classrooms are arranged in groups of five around a common area which holds supplies, sinks, counter work space and restrooms. The five classrooms and commons area are caiied a pod, and four pods make up the school. The pods radiate off a media center, equipped to serve three classes at the same time. Also included in the new building is a carpeted gymnasium with a 40 by 70 foot play area. New Chimney While some Black Mountain Rimary students got ^ whoie new school, students at the Biack Mountain Middle School returned to school Monday to find a new chimney on their roof. The old chimney, struck by lightning June 2nd, was tom down this summer and replaced with a shorter model, ready for the first cool days of fall. Black Mountain Primary School Principal Jerry Green directed traffic at the new school Monday, when parents and buses brought second through fifth graders for their first day at the new school. Buckeye Cove wins prize A Swarnartoa community re ceived second piace in the WNC Beautifu! Contest sponsored by the Buncombe County Agricultural Ex tension Office. Buckeye Cove Community was selected from 14 community clubs entered in this year's contest. Other winners were: first, South Hominy; second, Buckeye Cove; third, Avery's Creek; fourth, Dix's Creek No. 2; and fifth, Newfound. In the mobile home contest, winners were: first. Ox Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Lois Kirchhoff; second, South Hominy, Mr. and Mrs. William Magner; and third, Cane Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Fhank Buck ner. First piace in the mobile home, non-property owner contest went to Mr. and Mrs. James Liner of Scenic Fhrk Association. This is a new contest started by the Buncombe County Community Development Council to recognize mobile home owners who rent their space. President receives gift from N.C. Congressman BUI Hendon presented a "whimmy-diddle," a hand-crafted wooden toy made in the Western North Carolina mountain, to President Reagan during a Ught moment recentiy at the White House. Hendon made the presentation at the request of the Western North Carolina Folk Arts Center and the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild, which sponsored the first annual "Whimmy-Diddle Contest" this surimer in Asheville."It beats worry beads," the President told Hendon, as they took a break from the more serious concerns during the debate iast week over Reagan's historic tax cut proposal. Two arrested Saturday Two area men were arrested Saturday on two counts each of breaking and entering and larceny by Buncombe County sheriff depu ties. Arrested were Leonard Junior Ef fier, 26, of Swannanoa, and Lonnie Howard Fbx, 30, of Biack Mountain. According to Sheriff Tom Morh sey, at about 2:30 a m. Saturday two off-duty deputies saw three maies arrive at the parking iot of the Rode way Inn in a smaii car. A few minutes iater they observed a rental truck towing a Fbrd van away from the parking iot of the Rode way Inn. Hie deputies gave chase and stopped the vehicies at the entrance ramp to 1-40 at U S. 70 near Azalea. Two subjects jurrped from the truck and escaped into a nearby wooded area. One man was appre hended about 15 minutes after the description was received and ano ther was arrested near Black Moun tain Saturday afternoon. Bond was set at $100,000 Satur day and maintained in a preliminary hearing Monday morning for Fbx. Effler's bond was reduoed at the hearing. Dedicated to the growing Swannanoa VaHey August M, 198). v.iumn :9, Number 34 Second class postage paid at Black Mountain. NC 28711 ^ ! < ——--'-' ^ Vacancy in fire department to befi!!ed temporary A vacancy m tne nre aeparcment will be terrporarily filled by three part-time auxiliary fire personnel, Town (Council decided last week, and readvertised Dec. 5, 1981. Traditionally, when a position is open the board follows the recom mendation of the fire department in Hidden gunman ambushes area man Madison County sheriffs are in vestigating the Sunday shooting of a Black Mountain man in the Shelton Laurel section of Madison County. Charles Tweed was listed in satis factory condition Monday night at a Greenevilie, Tenn., hospital after receiving 22-caliber bullet wounds in his back and side. Fblice said Tweed was opening a gate on a private road about a quarter of a mile from the home of Marion Kykendall when shots were fired at Tweed from the woods at about 10:15 a m. Tweed, a native of Madison County, had spent the night at the Kykendall home. Tweed managed to crawl several hundred feet to the home of a neighbor, who took him to the hospital where he was placed in the intensive care unit. No arrests have been made in the shooting. Poticeand fire report Black Mountain Police Department A camera and lens valued at $500 were reported stolen from a Cherry Street business on Aug. 7. The owner left the camera on a desk at the rear of the store while he was outside on the sidewalk. When he returned, the camera was gone. Two speakers, about 20 tapes and a car battery were stolen from a vehicle parked in the Black Moun tain Rimary School driveway on Aug. 9. A rock was thrown through the window of the Lake view Senior Citizens' bus on Aug. 15. The bus was parked in the parking lot at the cnoosmg among appiicants to nit tt. The fire department's dioice was former Black Mountain fireman, David B. ([Brad) Norton, who re signed Dec. 5, 1980. The board voted to uphold a policy of former Town Manager Ernest Hudgtns whereby former town employees could not be re hired by the board until a year had elapsed since their resignation. The board has followed this policy on other occasions. Calling their action a compro mise, the board voted to fill the posmon temporaniy, notamg uie job open until Dec 5 when Norton would be eligible to apply along with other candidates. Firemen believe Norton should be hired for the position because he is already trained. Bar Mann Ingle celebrated her 90th birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Oliver Moody, 145 Central Ave., Swannanoa, Sun day, Aug. 16. Mrs. Ingle was bom on Aug. 17, 1891. Five generations of her family were present at the party honoring hen Mrs. hgle, her daughter Mrs. Oliver Moody, grandson Harold Moody, great-grandson Coty Moody and great-great granddaughter KeUy Moody. Camera and tens stoien poo! when the incident occurred. Black Mountain Fire Department Biack Mountain firemen an swered a cal! Saturday at Highland Farms after burning toast set off a fire alarm. On Monday, firemen battled a woods fire at Rocky Knob near Christmount from 8:14-10:58 a m. The fire was apparently caused by a campfire, a spokesman said. Swannanoa Volunteer Fire Department A car fire on Old U S. 70 caused less than $50 damage to electrical wiring on Aug. 10. Swannanoa firemen were called to 1-40 on Aug. 11 where a wheel had rolled off a camper truck, causing sparks and smoke. Swannanoa rescue personnel re ceived a call on Aug. 12 when a patient at Mountaincrest was exper iencing seizures. Cm Friday, Aug. 14, a dryer caught fire at the Asheville Dying and Finishing plant on Warren Wilson College Road. Damage was contained to the dryer, a spokesman said. On Saturday, a two-car accident on U S. 70 about midnight resulted in one injury. Weather review Aug. 11--high 85, low 61 degrees. Aug. 12-high 85, low 61 degrees. Aug. !3--high 85, low 55 degrees. Aug. 14-high 86, low 59 degrees. Aug. 15-high 84, low 55 degrees. Aug. 16-high 81, low 61 degrees. Augl 17-high 71, low 60 degrees. Weather courtesy of WFGW Radio. Black Mountain.

Page Text

This is the computer-generated OCR text representation of this newspaper page. It may be empty, if no text could be automatically recognized. This data is also available in Plain Text and XML formats.

Return to page view