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LOCAL BRIEFS: Lastein joins sales team, trail campaign, play opens

Kelton Lastein joined the Spake commercial real estate company.

By Bill Moss, Published: June 1, 2017

Kelton Lastein joins Spake real estate firm

Kelton Lastein has begun work with Spake Commercial Real Estate.
Lastein, a Hendersonville native, 2012 graduate of Christ School and Troop 627 Eagle Scout, has a degree in entrepreneurship from Western Carolina University. He traveled extensively after his college graduation and aspired to live “anywhere but here.”
Then last July, his father, Ed Lastein, died suddenly of a brain aneurysm at age 59. Kelton came home to be with his mother, Sandy, and brother, Teak, and sister, Kristen, after Lastein’s death, which shocked the community.
Kelton, 23, decided to try the commercial real estate business, one of the areas that his father had worked in along with his specialty as a landscape architect and site planner.
“Nobody can do what he did with landscape architecture,” Kelton said. “He was an artist. I could never try to replace that. He was a land planner.”
Kelton said he and his family look forward to a ceremony naming the Park at Flat Rock walking trails in honor his father on Sept. 9.
“It could have been a bunch of soccer fields and ballfields,” he said of the former Highland Lake golf course. “My dad said, ‘No, it needs to be something with some class and some esthetics.”
Lastein designed the master plan for the park after serving as the landscape adviser for the Village of Flat Rock for years before that.
John Spake took Kelton on a provisional broker. He can get his commercial broker license after completing three 30-hour courses. One of Lastein’s properties is a 40-acre tract on Upward Road at South Allen Road listed at $8 million. “That’s my first goal — to get it marketed and sold,” he said.

Park at Flat Rock launches $300,000 trails campaign

The Flat Rock Park Foundation and the Village of Flat Rock will launch a $300,000 campaign next month to complete walking trails that are a part of the updated Park Master Plan. The Flat Rock Park Foundation Board of Directors voted unanimously to endorse a matching grant program started with a $150,000 challenge.

“Our community in Flat Rock and Henderson County has generously supported the Park at Flat Rock’s development in the early stages,” foundation president Duncan Fraser said. “Now more and more individuals and businesses have the opportunity to see this park fully develop into a world-class place. Richard Eppler’s generous estate gift was made with the hope of seeing it grow to support the park. Our board is pleased to announce that the planned trails expansion campaign will utilize up to $150,000 of Mr. Eppler’s gift to match donations from the community.”
“The Flat Rock Park Foundation is committed to making the trail expansion a reality,” development chair Marcia Caserio said. “The first of our efforts will be ‘Feast and Frolic,’ a dinner and dancing fundraising event on Aug. 12 at Kenmure.”

For more information or to sign up for the fundraiser call Maurean Adams at 828-697-8100.

NAMI presents free seminar

The National Alliance on Mental Illness affiliate serving Henderson and Polk Counties, NAMI Four Seasons, is conducting a free seminar on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, in the Trinity Room at St. James Episcopal Church, 766 North Main Street.
EMDR has helped more than two million people of all ages relieve many types of psychological distress, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, complicated grief, pain disorders and addictions, among others. The session will be facilitated by Sherry A. McKisson, a certified EMDR therapist.
More than 30 studies have been done on EMDR therapy. Research funded by Kaiser Permanente found that 100 percent of single-trauma victims and 77 percent of multiple- trauma victims no longer were diagnosed with PTSD after only six sessions. EMDR is recognized as an effective form of treatment by the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organization, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Community Theatre presents ’Night Mother

Hendersonville Community Theatre (HCT) continues its season with a production of ‘Night, Mother on June 2 through June 11.

‘Night, Mother is a mother/daughter story about taking control of life in the face of isolation and despair. The play opens on a Saturday night in the home of Jessie and Thelma. Faced with the feeling that her life no longer has any significant meaning, Jessie has decided to end her life and makes her intentions clear to her mother, Thelma. The viewer is left anxiously awaiting the outcome as Thelma desperately tries to alter her daughter’s plans.

HCT’s production is co-directed by Molly Carlin-Folk and Jonathan Forrester and the featured actors are Shari Azar as Jessie and Annette Hobbs as her mother, Thelma.

Performances of ‘Night, Mother are at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. on Sundays. Tickets are $16 general admission, no reserved seating. Guests may arrive early and enjoy a complimentary glass of wine or beer and hors d’oeuvres. HCT is located in Downtown Hendersonville at 229 South Washington Street. For more information, call the HCT Box Office at 828-692-1082 or visit HendersonvilleTheatre.org.

Cardiologist joins Pardee heart practice

Pardee UNC Health Care announced that Martin Sullivan, M.D., a board-certified cardiologist, has joined Pardee Cardiology Associates.
Sullivan specializes in heart disease prevention and noninvasive methods for diagnosing and treating heart conditions. He has extensive experience in nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and vascular imaging.
Sullivan earned his medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine, where he also completed his internship, residency and cardiology research fellowship. He then completed a fellowship in cardiology at Duke University Medical Center. A member of the American Heart Association (national and North Carolina chapters) and Council on Atherosclerosis, he is a fellow of the Council on Circulation and the Council on Clinical Cardiology. Sullivan is also the recipient of several awards, including the Bayer Cardiovascular Research Award and the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award.

Dr. Sullivan is often able to see new patients within 48 hours. To schedule an appointment, call 828-697-7377 or visit pardeehospital.org.