Second c/ass postage paid
at Biack Mountain, MC 2#71J
Thursday, August 5, 1982, Volume !0, Number 31
Kimberly Shook and Johnny Blevins will be members of King
Sourwood's court during the Sourwood Festival this week.
Pianning Board
recommends contract
with Land of Sky
by BtU Anthony
The chairman of the Black Mountain
Planning Board had to cast the deciding
vote on two controversial issues at the
Board's Monday, July 26 meeting.
Chairman Travis Childs voted yes on
allowing the Alcohol Beverage Control
to have two free standing signs at its
new location, and also for contracting
with the Land of the Sky Regional
Council for a year's planning services.
Both decisions now go to the Board of
Aldermen as recommendations. Each
issue split the other Planning Board
members 3-3.
Childs presented the ABC's request
for two identification signs. The ABC
had obtained a permit to erect a sign 60
feet tall prior to the moratorium placed
on all new sign permits last winter
following the erection of a 100-foot sign
by McDonald's. The Planning Board is
still laboring over a zoning ordinance
which, in draft, permits 25-foot tall free
standing signs, but only one per
business.
The ABC in a "spirit of compro
mise," Childs said, is willing to forego
its approved 60-foot sign if it could erect
a 25-foot sign behind its new building to
attract customers off 1-40. In return, it
requests permission to move its present
shorter sign to the front of the new
building to be seen by motorists on N.C.
9.
Planners Joe Tyson and W alter Hall
expressed the sentiments of those
opposed to the proposal. Tyson linked
the ABC to the Town of Black Mountain
and suggested it should want to
conform with the spirit of the proposed
ordinance which in its earliest concep
tion was an intent to lessen the number
and size of business signs. And Hall
argued, "If you allow them to devitate,
how will you prohibit someone else from
doing so?"
Alderman Michael Begley, in the
audience, observed the ABC had "al
ready compromised," that this "is one
case of its kind," because of the earlier
permit, and that the signs "won't look
out of step with other signs in that area
10-15 years from now."
The other disputed issue, planning
services, was reduced to who was to
provide them. Tyson, for example,
thought the town manager should have
been present at the Planning Board
meeting, and also thought the frequent
turnover of town managers in recent
years was a substantial part of the
problem.
Planner W endell Begley was dissatis
fied with the text of the proposed
contract with the Land of the Sky
Regional Council, wanting more docu
mentation of work performed.
Continued on page 2
Meeting moved to ifbrary
The Board of Adjustments meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday has been moved from
Town Hail to the Black Mountain Library Education Room.
Town ends ffscal ye or 7n fhe b/oc^c'
by Cynthia Rehner
The annual town audit began Monday
and officials are certain the accoun
tant's figures will show the town is "in
the black" for the 1981-82 fiscal year.
Earlier in the year cash flow problems
left the town in a financial bind which
led them to ask businesses to extend
credit.
Town Manager A1 Richardson and
finance officer Midge Blakeslee credit
higher than expected tax revenues,
higher than expected state revenues,
careful spending by department heads
and a better collection rate of water
revenues and taxes with saving the
budget.
A higher collection rate on current
taxes was reported after Black Moun
tain officials studied county tax lists and
discovered people who were not listed
but lived in Black Mountain.
State revenues came in at about
(12,000 over the estimate given the
town by the State.
"We wouldn't have been able to stay
within the expenditures of last year's
budget without these higher revenues,''
Blakeslee said.
A crack-down on delinquent accounts
raised water revenues significantly for
the year. "We built a well, $35,000 not
budgeted, by the Water Department
savings and still came out in the black,''
Blakeslee said.
"Getting the Board out of managing
the town" and giving the authority over
Ground
broken for
condominiums
Groundbreaking was held Tuesday,
Aug. 3, for the Orchard of Black
Mountain, iocated at the comer of
Orchard and New Berne streets. The
eight-unit condominiums are designed
for senior citizens.
Completion is scheduled for eariy
December, according to project archi
tect Jan Wiegman. Four of the eight
units have been sold.
Six of the units have two bedrooms
and two units have one. All units
include garages. The project is planned
in clusters of four, with two entrance
courtyards around which garages and
entries are located. "The courtyards
encourage the daily chat, the helping
hand, and add to security," Wiegman
said.
The site was chosen because it is
located in walking distance of churches,
stores, services, municipal functions,
the library and the Monte Vista hotel,
which are all within a two-block radius.
their budgets to department heads has
been a major factor in saving money,
according to Aiderman Doug Stafford.
No money was budgeted last year for
capita! improvements, but most depart
ments have managed to make capita!
improvements with savings from their
budgets. The Fire Department, Stafford
said, was ab!e to hire another fireman
because of savings on other expendi
tures.
About $5,000 was saved in adminis
trative saiaries while the town was
without a manager. Another savings
occurred with the elimination of one job
in the water department.
The goif course has done we!l this
year, according to Richardson. "We
had higher expenses, but also higher
revenues than expected. We have less
personnel, two people less than in past
summers, because of updated equip
ment," he said.
A change in insurance saved the town
(3,000 for the year.
Stafford also credited Richardson,
Blakeslee and Suzanne Turner, admin
istrative assistant, for other savings
resuiting from money management
skilis and cooperative efforts in working
with the department heads.
Money not spent from Last year's
budget wiil go toward replenishing the
town's fund balance account. Just what
the figure left over will be won't be
known until accountant Richard Hudson
completes the audit.
Sourwood parade Sat.
The Fifth Annual Sour wood Festival
continues for the remainder of this week
with all the big events still ahead.
On Friday and Saturday the first
annual flea market will be held as part
of the festival. More than 15 churches
and organizations have been saving and
collecting treasured items for sale on
Cherry Street. In addition to flea market
items, there will be crafts.
No festival is complete without a
street dance and a parade. The dance
will be Friday night on Cherry Street.
The big parade will be Saturday
morning beginning at 10:30 a.m. From
the Black Mountain library the parade
will proceed down State Street to
Broadway, down Sutton Avenue to
Richardson Boulevard and up Richard
son Boulevard, disbanding in the form
er Big Buy lot.
Get ready for that' 'up, up and away''
hot air balloon ride with Mr. Bill from
the Ingles Shopping Center. There will
be a small charge. This event begins at
9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Friday's schedule (Aug. 6) includes:
tennis tournament all day) youth and
senior citizen fishing contest, 12-4 p.m;
flower and vegetable show, 2-9 p.m.;
flea market, 10 a.m-9 p.m.; horseshoe
tournament, 7-10 p.m.) miniature goif
tournament, 10 a.m-6 p.m.; street
dance, 8:30-10:30 p.m; ugly and un
usual pet show, 3-5 p.m; merchants'
sidewalk sales, 9 a.m-5 p.m; craft
sales, 10 a.m-9 p.m; David Holt,
musician, 3:30-5:30 p.m at the Old
Depot; demonstrations and sales, 10
a.m-5 p.m; law and safety displays,
1-9 p.m; carnival, 6-10 p.m
Saturday's events will include: tennis
tournament finals, 10:30 am; Sour
wood parade, 10:30 a.m; flower and
vegetable show, 10 a.m-6 p.m; flea
market, 10 a.m-9 p.m; Ronald Mc
Donald show, 2-3 p.m; street music
and dancing, 1-8 p.m; horseshoe finals,
4-6 p.m; craft sales, 10 a.rn-8 p.m;
merchants' sidewalk spies, 9 a.m-5
p.m; Bessemer Bell Ringers, 7-8 p.m
at the Old Depot; demonstrations and
sales, 10 a.m-5 p.m; law and safety
displays, 1-8 p.m; recreational vehicle
show, 10 a.m-9 p.m; Mr. Bill's hot air
balloon, 9 a m to noon; slowpoke bike
race, 10 a.m-1 p.m.; mountain hiking
and overnight camping; carnival, 11
a.m.-10 p.m.
Tennis tournament finals will con
tinue on Sunday. The art exhibit tea will
be held from 2-5 p.m. and the Jaycee
Gospel Sing from 2-6 p.m.
For more information call the Cham
ber of Commerce at 669-2300.
Schoots open
Monday, Aug. 16 will be the first
official day of school for Buncombe
County students. According to officials,
buses will run on a regular schedule for
the first day of school.
Work days for teachers will be held
Aug. 9-13.
The first holiday of the year for
students will be Labor Day, Sept. 6.
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by Cynthia Hehner
It is 3:30 on a hot summer afternoon.
Visiting hours will begin soon at the
hospital and the lobby is milling with
people. The Rev. Lindy Cannon makes
his way quietly among them toward the
door; his day is over and he's on his way
home.
In his day's work which began at the
operating room before 7 a m., the Rev.
Cannon has sat with the dying, easing
their way from this worid. He has
prayed and hoped, and finally cried,
with the relatives. He has, he trusts,
brought some peace, some understand
ing of the impossible questions of life
that come with serious illness.
Concern for emotional and spiritual
barriers to physical healing has led
Memorial Mission Hospital to establish
a new program. Heading it is a
Montreat resident, the Rev. Lindy
Cannon, the hospital's first resident
chaplain. Canon was appointed in July.
A congregational pastor for 16 years,
Cannon felt a calling to the one-to-one
nature of hospital work. He has logged
over 4,800 hours of training in hospitals
and has been a chaplain since 1976.
Memorial Mission Hospital is listed
as a trauma center for Western North
Carolina, and Cannon says this is also a
definition of his work. "Primarily I'm
dealing with a person's trauma," he
said. "We deal with fear primarily, the
fear of living ..anger, open hostility at
God and at oneself. My primary concern
is that they be healed, to remove the
impediments to healing."
Cannon is quietly and intensely
enthusiastic about his job. "Death, the
moment of experiencing it, the pain of
what that means, it's a spiritual
journey. I can move into a traumaic
situation and not be overwhelmed by
that trauma, help people move through
it. And, too, I really care about people.
"I enjoy the realness of people. Real
relationships form very quickly. People
are open and honest. You could live 10
years on the same block and not get into
this.
"I grieve a lot with them. It's an
emotional roller coaster. You're hoping
and praying with people. You sit in the
room together, you cry, you grieve. Tm
an emotional person. It's a gift I can
share."
His family, he said, gives him the
support he needs in his work. "They
have to bear the grief I share," he said.
The Rev. Cannon and his wife, Anna
Doggett Cannon, summer residents of
Montreat since childhood, now live
year-around at Georgia Terrace. They
have four children: Jim, 17, a senior at
Owen High School; David, 14, a
freshman at Owen; Elizabeth, 12, a
seventh grader at Black Mountain
Middle; and Rachel, 11, a sixth grader
at Black Mountain Middle. The Can
nons came to Montreat from St. Louis,
Mo., where the Rev. Cannon supervised
a chaplaincy program.
Besides visiting the patients in cor
onary, intensive care, pediatric inten
sive care, emergency room and operat
ing rooms, and holding Sunday services
in the chape! of the 472-bed hospital,
Cannon will establish a Clinical Pastoral
Education (CPE) program at the hospi
tal.
The program is expected to be under
way early next year. It will provide
training for anyone, lay or clergy,
involved with people in critical situa
tions.