CEDAR MOUNTAIN NEWS FOR THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6, 2020
SMALL AREA PLAN
The Transylvania County Cedar Mountain Small Area Plan committee meets on the last Tuesday of the month. The next meeting will be at the Cedar Mountain Community Center at 6:00 PM on Tuesday February 25th. The public is encouraged to attend.
COMING BLOOD DRIVES
These are the blood drive dates for 2020 as assigned to The Cedar Mountain Fire/Rescue auxiliary by the Red Cross: February 22, April 18, June 20, August 22, October 24, and December 19 from 8:30a – 12:30p. Be sure to add these dates to your new 2020 calendar so you don’t forget. Those whose lives have been saved by your donations thank you.
BBQ FOR SALE
The Cedar Mountain F/R Auxiliary is selling pork BBQ for $10 a lb. Contact Terie at 828-885-7720 or Candy at 828-884-2734 to order BBQ. All sales benefit the Cedar Mountain Fire Dept.
RENT THE CENTER
The Cedar Mountain Community is booking rentals for this year. The center has a capacity of 150 standing and seating for 100. Our center is the perfect place for your reception, party, family reunion, business meeting or other activity.
You could even get married outside on our beautiful patio and have your reception at the Center. It can also be used as a dressing room for outdoor weddings. Food can be prepared in the commercial kitchen or you may have it catered by local professionals.
The interior of the center was refreshed with a new coat of paint last summer. Ceilings were repaired and repainted and ceiling fans and lighting were replaced. It looks terrific. Come and see.
To rent the Center call Caroline Chambers at 828-290-9662.
Check out our website at https://www.cedarmountaincommunitycenter.com/
BOOKS NEEDED
Rosman Elementary School is currently collecting new and gently used books for our 7th annual Give 5, Read 5 book drive. Books collected go home with our students to build their personal, at-home libraries. Our hope is to collect at least 5 books for each of our 325 students. We will be collecting until late May. Please call Crystal Whitman at 862-4431 or more information or to arrange for pick-up.
HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Do you enjoy spending time with folks who enjoy the same kinds of things you do? Do you like to have some fun while you are at it? Then the place to be is with the Brevard chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of American on Saturday, February 8 beginning at 1 pm.
We are going to explore a fun way to look at things we tend to enjoy doing and actually gravitate towards. We will also meet others who enjoy the same kinds of things. Lastly, we will explore any ways that what we enjoy doing can assist our local chapter in continued operations as a local chapter.
The program will be presented by Ms. Tzena Keyes. Tzena retired from working as a manager in the NC Division of Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing - Asheville Regional Center in 2018. Since retiring, Tzena has done some volunteer work in her community and at her church. She continues to work as an adjunct instructor in the Interpreter Training Program at Western Piedmont Community College. She has returned to the Asheville Center to lend a hand in the absence of the Hard of Hearing Services Specialist position for a few months.
Chapter members, hearing professionals, and anyone interested in learning about hearing loss and hearing solutions are welcome. Direct questions via email to: HLAABrevard@gmail.com.
The meeting will be Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 1:00 pm at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Brevard. The room will open at 12:30 to sign in, browse the free literature, grab a snack, and meet others interested in discussing hearing problems and solutions. Captions will be provided.
The Lutheran Church is located at 22 Fisher Rd. in Brevard at the intersection of N. Broad Street and Fisher Rd., directly across the street from the main entrance to Ingles Market.
FEBRUARY CELEBRATIONS BIRTHDAYS: Happy birthday to George Mayer on February 4th. Judy Patrick will be celebrated on Feb. 10th, and Joey Pace on the 11th. Lee Smith will party-down on the 12th, and Beth Owings will probably wear red on her birthday on Feb. 14th as that is Valentine's Day. Faith Bishop will celebrate her birthday on the 24th while her sister-in-law Sharon Bishop follows with her birthday on the 26th; Jane Van Hook was also born on February 26th. Happy birthday to all! ANNIVERSARIES: Only one anniversary to report this month, though it is on a special day: Valentine's Day! Congratulations & Best Wishes to Wallace & Mary Kaye Dunbar, wed on February 14th many years ago. CHRISTINE'S CORNER: My friend Mayra Torres is helping me get rid of things and in the process is getting me organized! There are still several boxes that haven't been opened since mine & Joe's move over three years ago. With Mayra's help, I can see an end to my procrastination; everything will be in its right place or out of my home by spring. She has spare time if anyone wants to get a free estimate on having their home or office or workshop organized. Her number is (706)273-8935. She lives in Brevard. One of Joe's cousins, Cindy Shelton, lost her husband this week. Cindy is the daughter of Mary Lou Allison and Heath Allison, who passed several months before my Joe did. Please keep Cindy and her family in prayer. After a short battle with a stomach bug, I am feeling much better again, and returned to the free exercise class at Rocky Hill church's Family Life Center on Monday. I worked out slower this week but will soon build up my strength again under the leadership of Suzanne Lawson who does a superb job with us guys & gals. Her knowledge and abilities are encouraging, and she emphasizes working at our own speed. She is great; did I mention the classes are free? Come at 10am Mondays & Wednesdays to walk a half-hour (indoors) first, or come at 10:30, as I do, to skip the walking part. We do stretching, aerobics and cardio and we finish around 11:30. It's amazing how quickly old muscles are gaining strength once again! The phone number at the Family Life Center is (828)862-5611. Suzanne's email address is minniesc@hotmail.com and she welcomes any inquiries. At long last I am where I need to be once again, in the capable hands of the Transylvania Hospital Physical Therapists. Learning that three vertebrae in my neck are collapsing on each other, Dr. Graham referred me back to the physical therapy office that did so much for me last year following my double-hip replacements. They are a great group! Under the supervision of Grant Pierrone, I will learn how to perform traction on my neck here at home. He is helping with my range-of-motion too. We are blessed to have such great doctors and therapists in Transylvania County!
AROUND THE HOUSE by Linda Young
I was sorry to hear about some seasonal homes being broken into recently. We'd all like to believe that Cedar Mountain is a safe place. I think the thefts over the years are likely people who don't live here.
Several years ago a family maintained a trout pond right next to 276. Sometime during the night thieves used seines and took all the fish.
The former owners of Whistle-stop used to leave all produce outside at night with an on-your-honor receptacle to pay for what you took. One night somebody cleaned out all of their watermelons. The new owners have put their trust in people and are doing this again. Hopefully everyone will honor the trust these owners have in this community by paying for their produce.
We had a huge hand-painted saw mill blade (painted by Irene May and myself) that was used as a welcome sign to Cedar Mountain at the intersection of Solomon Jones Road and 276. It was yanked out of the ground and taken. Being embedded in concrete, we have to wonder how they managed it so cleanly. They even replaced the sod so it looked like the sign was never there - very conscientious thieves.
An antique Coke machine was stolen from the Cedar Mountain Canteen not long ago but returned recently. Crooks with a heart?
These are probably only a few of the total incidents here in Cedar Mountain and it is sad that there are those who think its OK to help themselves to other folks property.
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