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SOUTHERN LUMBER is featured this week in our Business Spotlight. See their ad on the back page of this section. QUIN THEATERS OWNER Johnny Maney asks everyone to be patient during the Quin's remodeling. A new concession stand and Dolby digital sound should be in place by this weekend with new seats, drapes and screens to follow after the first of the year. Maney also plans an addition to the theater next spring. TUCKASEGEE BAPTIST Church will hold its Pumpkin Festival at 2 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 25, on Shook Cove Road. Turn onto Shook Cove and follow the signs. ALLEN STREET Storage is now open with several sizes of storage units. They are located at 31 Allen Street (behind LifeWay Community Church). Call 631-9322 for more information or to reserve a unit. THE SEMI-ANNUAL CONSIGNMENT Sale featuring children's clothing and toys will be Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-25, at the old Ashley Co. on Harold Street. Friday hours will be 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Saturday hours will be 7 a.m. until 1 p.m.
PRN NURSING Services has expanded to include home care. The full-service medical staffing agency, directed by Melanie Burrell and Rebecca Ensley, can accept Medicaid, private insurance and private pay. The office is located at 26 West Sylva Shopping Center and can be reached at 631-4838. The new home care line is 586-3713. KAY BYER of Cullowhee recently learned that her short story "Hook" was one of the top four selected by author Charles Frazier of "Cold Mountain" fame to be recognized in the annual fiction contest sponsored by Now and Then magazine. The story, the first she has submitted anywhere, was awarded an honorable mention. She will have new poetry appearing in Shenandoah and Appalachian Journal, and the recently published "Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia" includes selections from her work, along with that of Sylva resident Sue Ellen Bridgers. Byer recently attended the Southeastern Booksellers Association annual trade show in Jekyll Island, Ga., where she signed copies of her SEBA Book of the Year in Poetry, "Catching Light," as well as her new chapbook "Wake," from Spring Street Editions in Sylva. In January she will serve as the Sara Lura Matthews Self Distinguished Writer in Residence at Converse College. "YOU NEVER miss the water till the well runs
dry," wrote Rowland Howard back in the 1870s. Smoky Mountain High
graduate Johnny Jaimez would agree. His Carolina well ran dry the day
he and the other 119 members of his National Guard 210th Military Police
unit were deployed to Iraq in April. When asked by friend Connie Hanna
of Cullowhee (who has sent several care packages from the employees
at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching) what he
missed most, Johnny replied, "North Carolina mountain water."
Connie told Carrie Gates who told Carolina Mountain Water in Cashiers
and Cherokee Bottled Water in Cherokee about this young soldier's request.
The companies have agreed to supply the 210th with a 120 cases of mountain
water, one case per soldier. The free water will cost $20 per case to
ship to Baghdad. Here is how you can help. Stop by either branch of
Carolina Central Bank (Main Street or drive-in window on Cope Creek
Road), and deposit $20 or any donation into the Operation Mountain
Water account.
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