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COUNTRY ROAD FARMS Tack & Western and Nursery & Garden Center are featured in our Business Spotlight this week. See their ad on the back page of this section for information about spring specials.
THE BEAUTIFUL LILIES pictured with our report of local Easter services were photographed by Brent Holland of Sylva and were an entry in a previous year's Sylva Herald photo contest.
THERE'S STILL TIME to submit entries to this newspaper's seventh annual spring photo contest. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday, April 8, but in light of the newspaper's April 9 holiday, photos placed in our drop box over the long weekend will be accepted. Contest rules and entry forms are available online (www.thesylvaherald.com) or at our Main Street offices. For information, call contest coordinator Nick Breedlove at 586-2611.
THE JARRETT HOUSE, will re-open Friday, April 9, for its 120th year and its 30th under the management of the Hartbarger family. The Dillsboro landmark will initially be open for lunch Monday-Saturday from 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.; breakfast Saturday and Sunday from 7 to 9 a.m.; dinner Friday and Saturday from 4:30 to 8 p.m.; and Sunday's traditional family-style meal from 11:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Regular in-season hours will begin May 1. For information, call 586-0265.
GREAT SMOKIES REAL ESTATE of Dillsboro has merged with Country Classic Real Estate of Sylva. Great Smokies' Janice MacMichael and Kristina Owen will soon join Country Classic owners Hart Goodson and Bobby Potts and their staff. For more information, call Country Classic at 586-5858.
ED YASHENKO, owner of E&S Seafood Market at Dillsboro Court, has a recipe for roasted whole red snapper featured in this month's issue of House Beautiful. "I'm not a chef," Yashenko said. "I just like to cook, and this is a recipe I've worked on over the years." A two-page color spread showcases his snapper recipe which the magazine crew termed "top of the line." See his recipe on page 6C.
JOSIE ELLIS of Dillsboro will be featured on WLOS this Saturday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. as part of a broadcast about winners of the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award, a $25,000 prize given annually to three state residents for their work in effecting change in their communities. Ellis received the award in November for the health services and advocacy she provides for migrant workers in the area.
CEMETERY MOWING JOB: Anyone interested in mowing the Lower Coward Cemetery this season can submit a bid no later than Thursday, April 15, to Joe Lovedahl at 293-5908 or Larry Lovedahl at 293-5700.
AN ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY group formed in memory of Melanie Thompson will pick up trash Saturday, April 10, at noon as part of the Spring 2004 Litter Sweep. The group will meet at the Webster Baptist Church and work in Webster along N.C. 116 almost to S.R. 1367 (Little Savannah Road).
YOU CAN STILL see the Easter play at New Hope Baptist Church. His Kind of Love will be staged tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m. at the church on Old Settlement Road.
EDWARD JONES is sponsoring a noon seminar on Tuesday, April 13, at Ryan's Steakhouse on "Tax-Deferred Investing and Maximizing Income." The event is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required. R.S.V.P. to Teri Evans, 586-3848, by April 12.
 RETIRING MANAGER Ray Buchanan was honored March 31 at a party given by residents of River Park Apartments in Dillsboro. Buchanan has been with the apartments since they were built in 1994. He was first hired as maintenance supervisor when Lucille Lambert served as the manager. When she retired in January 2002, Buchanan took on that job as well.
WE RECEIVED A NOTE from the Rev. Randy Davenport, who said he reads The Herald online out in Virginia City, Nev. He wanted to clarify for our readers that Westboro Baptist Church, the anti-gay congregation that plans an April 24 protest at Western Carolina University, is not a Southern Baptist Church. "Baptists are a diverse group including over 44 denominations and countless independent Baptist, of which Westboro is," wrote Davenport, who is from Sylva. Our story last week stated that Westboro classifies itself as an "Old School, or Primitive Baptist Church." Thanks to Randy for his note and for letting us know that he enjoys reading The Herald via the Internet.
ANOTHER NOTE came to us from closer to home. Ray Menze of the Jackson County Visual Arts Society wrote to thank everyone who joined in Sylva's March 27 gallery stroll that included Penumbra, Gallery One, Energy, Worldly Possessions, It's By Nature, Mug and Stein and Spring Street. The galleries are planning another such evening soon to "contribute to downtown Sylva's and Jackson County's heritage of arts and crafts," Menze said.
AND ONE FINAL NOTE: Two former governors, Jim Hunt and Jim Holshouser, teamed up to remind last-minute taxpayers about the "mystery box" on the North Carolina income tax form. By finding and marking the box "Yes," the former governors say, you'll help protect state courts from special-interest influence - and it won't cost you anything. Look for a question on the N.C. tax form about the Public Campaign Financing Fund. It may say, "Do you want to send $3 of the taxes you are already paying to the N.C. Public Campaign Financing Fund?" The wording used by software packages and accountants varies greatly and can create confusion, according to Hunt and Holshouser. The fund provides voters with independent, nonpartisan information about candidates for the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. And it provides those candidates with limited campaign money - if they agree to reject special-interest donations and rely on small donations from registered voters. "Big donors should not influence our courts," the former governors say. |
