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Hendersonville News

Seven more fundraisers scheduled for Fire Capt. Poore

Seven fundraisers have been scheduled and others are ongoing for Hendersonville Fire Capt. Josh Poore, who is recovering from serious injuries he suffered in a mountain bike accident on June 13. He is undergoing rehab at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta and at this point his projected discharge date is Sept. 4, the city said in a news release. Here are details of upcoming fundraisers: 4-9:30 p.m. Friday, July 26, Sweet Frog, – 201 N. Main St. Sweet Frog in Hendersonville will donate 25% of all proceeds sold. There will also be $1 raffle tickets sold during the event for Sweet Frog gift cards, Peak Wireless Cell Phone Repair, Timber Axe Throwing Gift Certificate, Franny’s Farmacy gift, and restaurant gift cards from local restaurants. A firetruck will be onsite, and members of the Hendersonville Professional Firefighters Association will be selling wristbands to raise money during the event. link: https://www.facebook.com/events/397959884173765/ Golf Tournament – Full Send For Poore, 9 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1. High Vista Golf Course, 88 Country Club Road, Mills River. Cost is $50 per person (cash or check only). Best Ball / Captain’s Choice with no handicap. Event questions may be directed to Heidi Cole at (954) 328-1956. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/340896823479092/ Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019 5-8 p.m. Sierra Nevada High Gravity Room, 100 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River. Support Fire Capt. Poore by spending the evening at Sierra Nevada’s High Gravity Room. Admission is $20 for adults (kids attend for free). Event will include a raffle and a 50/50 drawing. Event questions may be directed to Heidi Cole at (954) 328-1956. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/531226144081569/ Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019 from 11:30am-1:30pm, Bistro Day at Lake Pointe Landing, for Lake Pointe Landing residents and their guests. The Lake Pointe Landing lunch buffet will raise money to support Capt. Poore. Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019 from 2pm-6pm, Poore Beer and WOD Fundraising Event, Triskelion Brewing Company, 340 Seventh Avenue East. CrossFit HVL is partnering with Triskelion Brewing Company and the Hendersonville Fire Department to create a Fundraising WOD (workout) in a town effort to help support Josh Poore and his family in this trying time. The workout is not required to participate in the event; all are welcome to stop by and support the event. The WOD will take place at Triskelion where the Hendersonville Professional Firefighters Association IAFF Local 2645 will be selling wristbands and t-shirts and collecting donations to participate in the WOD (workout). Participants can either donate at the event or donate to the GoFundMe page and show their donation receipt to the volunteers to participate day of the event. CrossFit HVL will be running the WOD (workout). Triskelion Brewing Company will also be donating part of the beer sales during the event to the Josh Poore Fund. They also have the Appalachian Renegades band playing that night at 8pm. There will be a raffle of donated items from the local community as well. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/476792223079721/ Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019 at 8-10:30am, Summit Crossfit South Fundraiser, Summit Crossfit South – 37 Maxwell Drive. The CrossFit fitness community in partnership with the Hendersonville Fire Department and Asheville Fire Department present a fundraiser to help support Captain Josh Poore, who recently suffered a spinal cord injury following a mountain biking accident. Join Summit Crossfit South on August 24th for a workout to show your support for Josh and his family. Heats will occur every half hour. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/858482847857017/ Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, Sanctuary Brewing Company fundraiser. Save the Date - Details Coming. #FULLSENDFORPOORE Wristband Fundraiser, Ongoing. The Hendersonville Professional Firefighters Association Local 2645 is selling #FULLSENDFORPOORE wristbands to raise money for Captain Josh Poore. Wristbands ($5) can be purchased at either Hendersonville Fire Station and at upcoming fundraisers. Fire Station 2 – 632 Sugarloaf RoadFire Station 1 – 851 N. Main St. Administrative staff members are available to accept donations at Station 2 every weekday from 8am-5pm. Staff availability for accepting donations is based on call volume and less predictable outside of regular business hours and at Station 1. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/2250101301693602/. GoFundMe, ongoing. A GoFundMe account has been set up to benefit Josh and his family.https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-fire-captain-josh-poore. Donations, ongoing. The public can make a donation at any State Employees Credit Union in North Carolina. Visit a SECU and let them know you’d like to donate to the “Josh Poore Family Tragedy Account” or drop off donations at either Hendersonville Fire Department Station. Follow the Support Captain Josh Poore Facebook page @FullSendForPoore for updates as additional fundraisers are planned. https://www.facebook.com/FullSendForPoore/   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Ask Matt ... how actors see in the dark

Q. During stage performances, both at the Flat Rock Playhouse and the Hendersonville Community Theatre, how do actors find their marks when the stage goes dark during set changes? “The trick is something called glow tape,” said Chris Simpson, Technical Director at the Flat Rock Playhouse. The product the Playhouse uses does exactly that – it glows in the dark. Glow Tape is used throughout the theatre industry for marking light switches, prop locations, and of course, actors’ positions. The tape is flexible, durable and easy to use. Now the secret is out. “An audience member with a keen eye can notice it,” said Simpson. “It has a greenish-yellow look to it.” The Playhouse uses it as a landing strip of dots or dashes to direct actors back offstage while in blackout mode. The glow tape does not last an entire performance but it only takes a few seconds to recharge the tape by the stage crew. During the intermission, patrons might notice black-clothed technicians walking around with flashlights “recharging” the glow tape. The Hendersonville Community Theatre (HCT) on Washington Street does not use glow tape because their system is fairly simple. “The actors are in the wings,” said Technical Director Bob Reece. “They know where they are heading and they just move to their positions when the blackout occurs.” The lighting operator hits the lights when the actors are in place. Break a leg! Q. What’s the status on the old Valley Hill School building? Wasn’t it supposed to be torn down by now? Yes, but it’s still standing. County officials said that they are still working with court-appointed officers tasked to sell the property which was once the Pathway Christian Academy. The 3.6-acre tract is zoned residential and the listed tax value is $427,100, but with the added cost of debris removal and renovation, the market value is probably much less than that. The property contains two brick structures, a gym and a cafeteria, both of which have questionable potential for reuse. Q. What is going into the space at Pardee occupied by the EMS and Rescue Squad now that they have moved their operations up the road to the joint facility on the old Balfour School property on US 25 North? It is my understanding that Henderson County has determined that it has no further use for the site for emergency medical purposes. EMS was leasing some 5,600 square feet of the brick building for administrative and operations space and about 3,000 square feet for apparatus (six ambulance bays). The property is only about 0.2 acre but it is prime real estate next to the hospital’s main entrance on Justice Street. The future use is now in the hands of Pardee Hospital. I suspect that Pardee will remove the structure. Whether the hospital uses the site for another building or just levels and landscapes the site as a grassy enhancement remains to be seen.   * * * * * Send questions to askmattm@gmail.com.     Read Story »

Henderson County News

Cooper appoints new county Elections Board chair

Charles “Charlie” Medd, a retired Henderson County schoolteacher who served in the U.S. Navy and Reserves for 40 years, has been appointed chair of the Henderson County Board of Elections. Medd, 77, taught for two years at Immaculata Catholic School, 21 at Dana Elementary School and nine at Hendersonville Middle School, where he taught social studies and math.Born in Miami 1941 to Sophie and Charles Baker Medd, young Charlie didn’t stay in South Florida for long.“My mother didn’t like the heat,” he said. She was from Winnipeg, Canada, and his father, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Coast Guard, was born in the port city of Southampton, England. “She asked, ‘Where do you go to get out of this heat?’” The Blue Ridge Mountains, they told her.She packed up little Charlie and his two older sister and set out, slowed by gas rationing and worn rubber tires. “She’d only do about 35 miles an hour,” he said. “It took her two full days to get here. We stopped overnight in Jacksonville, I understand.”Sophie had a knack for entrepreneurship. She raised one of the largest flocks of laying hens and broilers in North Carolina and also started an RV park, which Medd still runs, just east of Sugarloaf Elementary School.After graduating from the Blue Ridge School for Boys, which was where the Blue Ridge Mall now stands. “We had to go to night study hall from 7 to 9, two hours,” Medd told historian Jennie Jones Giles for an article on the school in Giles’s Henderson Heritage website. “We couldn’t talk. We had to study and stay busy. That’s where I learned how to study and become a better student.”His scholastic habits didn’t immediately stick. Medd said he attended the University of Georgia until the university invited him not to. His parents gave him a choice of coming home and paying rent, moving out and getting a job or joining the service. He enlisted in the Navy, following his father’s sea-based career, and served on active duty until 1964.After he got out, he joined the Reserves and served until he reached the mandatory retirement age of 60 in 2001. “I retired on Sept. 9, two days before Sept. 11,” he said. “I called them up and said, ‘Would you let me come back? I haven’t forgotten anything in 48 hours.’ They asked me how old I was and they said, ‘Thanks for calling.’”When he came home from the Navy, he enrolled in the old Asheville Biltmore College, which was about to become UNC Asheville. On campus he met his future wife, Suzanne, a Canton native who was in UNCA’s first graduating class. While he was teaching in Henderson County, Medd went on to earn a master’s degree from Western Carolina University. He and Suzanne have two daughters, Heather and Catherine, and three grandchildren with another on the way. The baby’s due around November, when the grandfather will be busy overseeing an election for the first time.The first decision he makes could also be the most important decision of his tenure. The Elections Board is interviewing finalists for the job as elections director, replacing the widely respected and assiduously non-partisan Beverly Cunningham. The goal is “to find a director like Beverly Cunningham,” he said. “As far as I know, there’s never been an ounce of fraud or anything in her administration. I can say as a poll worker, she insisted that everybody be treated the same, equal. If there was some kind of hoo-rah, we allowed them to vote a provisional ballot and let the board decide.”Medd heard about the chairmanship from his friend Bob Livingston, from St. James Episcopal Church. State law required Livingston to resign when his son-in-law, Carey O’Cain, filed for re-election as Laurel Park mayor.Asked how he got the appointment, which was made by Gov. Roy Cooper, Medd said, “I applied for it.” The rest of the process was simple as far as he knows. “He signed a piece of paper.”After a protracted court battle between Cooper and the Republican leadership in the General Assembly, all counties have a five-member Board of Elections with a 3-2 Democratic majority and a chair that Cooper appoints.         Read Story »

Henderson County News

One day after guilty plea in cyberstalking, Henson resigns

State Rep. Cody Henson announced his resignation from the state House on Wednesday, one day after entering a guilty plea  to one count of cyberstalking in Transylvania County District Court. Henson accepted an agreement with the North Carolina Department of Justice for deferred prosecution and 18 months of probation.   Read Story »

North Carolina News

McGrady's bill to reform 'antiquated, inefficient' liquor laws advances

Following a major victory last week with the passage of Senate Bill 290, state Rep. Chuck McGrady pushes on today in  his efforts to modernize North Carolina’s Alcoholic Beverage Control system. The House ABC Committee, which he co-chairs, will hear his bill (House Bill 971).   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Champion Hills awarded $55,000 in scholarships

“I’d love to go back to school…. I just can’t afford it yet.” Those words from an employee inspired Champion Hills members to create the Champion Hills Scholarship Fund. Since 2013, this fund has awarded college scholarships to deserving full-time and seasonal employees, as well as children of full-time employees with at least four years of service. The fund also gives grants to employees seeking advanced professional training and certification programs directly related to their careers at Champion Hills. Over the past six years, the Champion Hills Scholarship Fund has awarded 49 individuals $258,000 in college scholarships and grants for professional certifications. The bi-annual fundraising event held a few weeks ago raised an additional $93,000 and funded the future of nine employees and two children of employees, totaling $55,000 in academic scholarships. “It is truly rewarding to see the staff accomplish their goals and ambitions, and I am very proud to work for a Membership who helps our team achieve them," Champion Hills General Manager Dana Schultz said. Addison Kain, a rising junior at the University of Tennessee and Hendersonville native, is a scholarship recipient. She began working in the food and beverage department in 2016 and completed an internship in the Marketing and Membership Department of Champion Hills this summer. “I initially chose to work at Champion Hills because of the atmosphere and staff, but I come back year after year because of the members," she said. "Because of them, I have the opportunity to attend the school of my dreams!” Addison went on to explain that the scholarship went well beyond money, giving her the encouragement and empowerment to chase after her dreams. “The members believe I can go on to do amazing things,” Addison said, “One day I will pay that priceless feeling forward.”   Read Story »

Green River News

Bicycle races coming to Green River Aug. 10-11

Crosstown Velo Racing Team will partner with the Green River Community Association and the Green River Fire Department to promote the official Road Race Championship for North and South Carolina Aug. 10 and 11.   Read Story »

North Carolina News

Candidate for House District 113 to speak

Jake Johnson, the only announced Republican candidate for State House District 113 seat, will be the guest speaker at the Henderson County Republican Men’s Club breakfast meeting at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 24, at the Dixie Diner in Laurel Park.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Deputies seek mother in parental abduction of 13-year-old daughter

Henderson County sheriff’s deputies are seeking a woman who they say abducted her 13-year-old daughter on Sunday and could be driving to Florida.   Read Story »

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