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SMHS hosts Special Olympics
Participants in the opening ceremony for the Far West Regional Games (top photo), a Special Olympics competition held Friday (April 25) at Smoky Mountain High School included, from left, Congressman Heath Shuler; N.C. Sen. John Snow; Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Principal Chief Michell Hicks; Far West Games Co-director Sue Evans; the Rev. Jim Dean of Sylva, who gave the invocation; Macon County Schools physical education teacher Sarah Lowell; special athlete and speaker Lorne Jackson (partially obscured), Jackson County Special Olympics coordinator Abigail Blakley; Games Co-director Pat Beasley; Jackson County Schools’ Terri Hollifield; SMHS Principal Jay Grissom; and Jackson County Commissioners’ Chairman Brian McMahan. At right, 8-year-old Bailey Elliott, left, a student at Cullowhee Valley, is on her way to a silver medal in the 50-meter dash. Check next week’s Herald for more pictures from Friday’s Far West games. – Herald photos by Nick Breedlove
