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FREE every ThursdayVolume 10, Number 44NOTE: If you are closing up your secondhome and heading out of Highlands, pleasetake all unopened foods to the Food Pantry behind the Methodist Church.Thurs., Nov. 1 At Fressers Eatery, Wellstrungperforming 6:30p untilSaturday, Nov. 3 Daylight Savings Time ends tonight. Turn your clocks back one hour. CLE Presents: W.E. the story aboutWallis and Edward, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at 6:30p at the HighlandsPlayhouse. Tickets are 15. For reservations contact The Center for Life Enrichmentat526-8811orclehighlands@yahoo.com. The Highlands Plateau Greenwayfirst fall hike of the recently completed trailsystem. The hike will include: lunch, guided hike, shuttle and one year individualgreenway membership all for 25. To signup email to Hillrie Quin athmquin@frontier.com or call 526-2385. Members of Highlands UnitedMethodist Church will be going into thecommunity doing good deeds to show thelove of Christ.They will be in red shirts.Monday, Nov. 5 Shortoff Baptist church will be having its monthly non-denomination Men’sMeeting on Monday at 7p. Butch Smartwill be the inspiration speaker for this meeting. All men are invited for this time ofWorship and Fellowship.Tues., Nov 6 Election Day! Polls open at 6:30aand close at 7:30a. Get out and VOTE!See the Sample Ballot at yle001.pdf Highlands Dialogue at the HudsonLibrary from 10-11:30 a.m TBA. Coordinator: Martha Porter.Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012Internet PDF Version at www.HighlandsNewspaperPDF.comParking issues, grinder pumps & moreBy Stuart FergusonDuring its regularly scheduledmeeting on October 18, the majority of dicussion revolved arounddowntown parking; a new policy forgrinder pumps; and a surveillancecamera policy.After approving the agendaand the September 20 meeting’sminutes, during the public commentsection of the meeting, Joe Lukefrom Reeves Hardware Companyspoke.Luke complained that not onlywas Main Street parking difficult,but that now employers were abusing parking on 3rd Street betweenMain and Spring streets. He saidthere were 25 parking spaces on thatblock, and that he had photographs See PARKING page 3Authoritiesseek helplocatingrape suspectLaw Enforcement agenciescontinue to seek information thatwill lead to the arrest and conviction of the suspect. Federal, stateand local law enforcement officials are using a variety of investigative tools, including forensic evidence, to find the suspect andbring him to justice. In recentmonths, law enforcement officershave followed up on leads andconducted interviews. No arrestshave been made in the case.The Forest Service, the MaconCounty Sheriff's Office, and theState Bureau of Investigations(SBI) are seeking information onthe rape that occurred Sunday,Sept. 25, 2011, at approximately 4p.m. in Macon County within theNantahala National Forest.The incident occurred at theintersection of Forest Service Road(FSR) 711 and the Wayah Road,– Final Questions –The Bascom's sappling sculpture, "Do Tell" created by PatrickDougherty June 2010, met an early demise Monday whensnowy, gusting winds blew it down.Photo by Jim Lewicki‘Perfect Storm’ brings winterblast to HighlandsHighlands was spared the brunt of weather caused by the threeconverging weather systems that blasted the northeast seaboard Monday and Tuesday, but still its effects were felt.Winds of 25 mph-35 mph with gusts much higher, brought downtrees and power lines causing numerous power outages scattered acrossthe power grid.Public Service Administrator Lamar Nix said calls started comingin 9 a.m. Monday morning and continued until 6 a.m. Tuesday.Crews braved the cold, wet, windy and snowy weather to removeSUMMER HOUSEGOOGLEMon.-Sat. 9-5, Sun. 12-5pYear Round!2089 Highway 106828-526-5577Highlands NewspaperHighlands or Highlands NCHighlands North Carolina‘Home Furnishing Center’24567891222Kuppersand Higdonface off atLeague Q&A See RAPE page 14The Inside Letters .Wooldridge .Salzarulo .Swanson .Coach’s Corner .Investing at 4,118 Ft. .Just Hers .Events .Classifieds . See WINTER page 2Extreme Information:Carolina WayBar & Lounge onFeaturing full bar, live musicand billards!Your Place forSaturday and SundayFootball Games!On Thursday, Oct. 11, theLeague of Women of held a question and answer forum with Macon County Commission candidates incumbent Democrat Bobby Kuppers and Republican PaulHigdon.The questions revolvedaround the question “What is therole of county government?”This is the third and final installment – See the Oct. 18 edition for part 1 and the Oct. 25edition for part 2 atwww.highlandsnewspaperPDF.com.At this point in the forum,sitting commissioners who werein attendance asked the candidates questions.The first was CommissionChair Kevin Corbin whoasked: How do you feel about See LEAGUE Q&A page 10ELECTION DAY is Tuesday, Nov. 6.Polls open at6:30a and close at 7:30a.To see a Sample Ballot go 6-Style001.pdf

Page 2 - Highlands Newspaper - Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 - 828-526-3228 THE PLATEAU’S POSITION LETTERS Run-on sentences arepoor grammar HAWK’S EYE VIEW Dear Editor,I have a problem with your columnist Don Swanson’s use of eight commasin one very, very, long sentence; making itextremely difficult to digest.He’s hard enough to stomach as it is.Noel AthertonWhiteside CoveNow this is funny .or maybe scary is thebetter wordDear Editor,I read Fred Wooldridge’s column entitled “Here’s a funny not so funny piece ofadvice” in the Highlands Newspaper lastweek and figured he might be a Mormon, asis Gerald Molen, the director, producer, andwriter of the movie he reviewed, “2016.” Andguess what? So is Mitt Romney. So, Fred’sin good company if that's the case.It would appear from his remarks thatthe movie served its purpose; it scared himto the point that he had to share his fearwith readers. Or perhaps he was just tryingto make a political statement, I can't be sure.But if he is genuinely worried about oureconomy he should take a look at the followingwebsite:www.neweconomicperspectives.orgor Google: Dr. Stephanie Kelton. I think hewill find some solace and sound reasoningin the explanations offered and then hewon't be scared any more. It's up to himwhether or not he decides to share his newknowledge with readers.And remember, the movies and FoxNews are for entertainment purposes only.If he insists on being scared, I haveincluded something seasonal but make sureyou're sitting down before looking at theattached photo. And, you're welcome! THANKS The family of Arnold Keener wouldlike to thank everyone for their kindnessof friendship,cards, food, kind words andprayer. We would especially like to saythank you to Dr. Patti Wheeler, the staff atHighlands-Cashiers Hospital for theirthoughtful care.The Family of Arnold KeenerThanks forsupporting the FoodPantryLLC“Our Community Service - A Free Local Newspaper”FREE every Thursday on the street and on the web;Circulation 10,000Toll Free FAX: 866-212-8913 (828) 526-3228Email: HighlandsEditor@aol.comPublisher/Editor – Kim Lewicki; Copy Editor– Tom MerchantCartoonist – Karen Hawk; Digital Media - Jim LewickiLocally owned and operated Kim & Jim LewickiAdobe PDF version at www.HighlandsInfo.com265 Oak St.; P.O. Box 2703, Highlands, N.C. , 28741All Rights Reserved. No articles, photos, illustrations, advertisements ordesign elements may be used without permission from the publisher.Rob MoorefieldHighlandsThe second annual Empty Bowls, abenefit for the Food Pantry, was a wonderful success. Guests were asked to buy ahand-made bowl made at The Bascom, asa reminder of all the empty bowls aroundthe world. They were then served a simplemeal of soup and bread. Proceeds when tothe Food Pantry. We would like to thankthe many volunteers and donors whomade this inspiring event possible and themany supporters who bought bowls.Barbara LandwehrCo-Director, The Food Pantry ofHighlands. WINTER from pg 1eight trees from power lines and thenworked to restore power."We were extremely fortunate to nothave any more damage than what we had,"said Nix. He said tree trimming, whichtown crews do all year long, helps duringweather events like this.Unlike its counterparts further north,Highlands got about an inch of snow overthe two-day period, but snow coupledwith freezing temperatures brought winter early to the plateau.– Kim Lewicki

. PARKING continued from page 1of 18 cars parked there all day long.“I’m not saying Reeves wants thosespots — I’m saying Highlands needs thosespots,” he said.Now customers for Main Street storesare forced to park beyond Spring Street, atthe Christian Science Church and beyond.“The biggest complaint we have atReeves is ‘I’d shop here more but I can’tfind the parking.’ The board and most people in town know that tourism is the town’smain industry. It needs to be addressed: Ittakes a long time and it’s not popular butsomething needs to be done .like everything else, not everybody is going to behappy .before another season comesaround we need to do something about thisproblem,” he said.The store has collected 380 signatureson a petition asking for dedicated parkingfor Reeve’s customers — like a 15-minutespot.“We have a lot of customers who comein for light bulbs or washers — simple thingsand they can’t get a spot. I’m not pushingfor that [dedicated parking],” he said. “Butjust want to show there’s a perceived needamong our customers.”He added that Reeve’s has had a 45%downturn in business since 2006 and thatwhile this past August his business had 550transactions a day, in September that number was down to 415.Mayor David Wilkes asked if they’dlike to see 2nd and 3rd street dedicated parking for customers and Luke said he would.“There’s “no reason why people who workat stores can’t park out there beyond SpringStreet, it would just take them another twoor three minutes to get to work.”Mayor Wilkes shares his experience atthe other end of the Main Street businessdistrict: “I’ve seen many more people parkalong the edge of shoulders in front of Highland Hiker all the way to the corner. It’s constant and it never used to happen. A lot of itis due to the lunch crowd at MountainFresh .over the years we’ve gotten moreand more vehicles in town so it’s probably agood idea to consider more designated customer parking,” he said.He also said the town needs to consider a really simple map: green where you canpark and red where you cannot park. “Wemay need to look at map and make changesand extend it — which is what we’re talkingabout. But we need to make that map available to everybody.”He spoke of contractors [carpooling]who leave vehicles on Main Street whilethey spend all day at a job somewhere elseand urged store owners to write down thelicense tags of vehicles that were parked infront of their businesses for long periods.“For the past 30 years it’s been a problem,” Wilkes said. “We’ve talked about parking meters, we talked about striping tires —nobody really wanted to do that; we wantedtwo-hour parking, and that didn’t look good.We discussed just about every different wayto resolve it; unless we put boots on car andstart towing them. But that’s another firestorm,because you’re gonna boot some visitor’scar.”Commissioner Amy Patterson askedHighlands Chamber of Commerce DirectorBob Kieltyka if most of the merchants were infavor of their employees parking off MainStreet to which Kieltyka answered yes, thevast majority, and that in fact there are justare few violators of the parking rules, otherthan a handful of well known, habitual “perpetrators.”“It’s a never–ending problem,” saidPatterson. “You’re right, there is no solution,we just keep chipping away at it, but it needsto be a joint effort [between merchants andtown].” She then suggested employers require employees to put a parking sticker ontheir cars so it can be easily identified.Mayor Wilkes weighed in: “We’ve discussed that from time to time. There are a lotof part-time employees; employees who driveone car today and another tomorrow; andthere are employees who are, literally, customers. I mean I drive down the street to get acard at the Dry Sink then I’m a customer andI park in front — but I’ve got an employeesticker. When are they a customer, when arethey not a customer? We’ve been throughhaving every merchant sign a pledge thatneither themselves nor their employees willpark on Main Street. There’s never been aresolution and their have been sometimeswhen someone will park in front of someoneelse’s store on Main Street just to make themmad.”Wilkes said he would “bring this backwith an enforcement suggestion and extended parking maps.”Grinder PumpsAccording to Wikipedia, “a grinderpump is a waste management device. Wastefrom water-using household appliances (toilets, bathtubs, washing machines, etc.) flowsthrough the home’s pipes into the grinderpump’s holding tank. Once the waste insidethe tank reaches a specific level, the pumpwill turn on, grind the waste into a fine slurry,and pump it to the central sewer system.”According to the Town of Highlands’new policy on grinder pumps, a draft of whichwas presented Thursday night:State regulations require the town maintain service mains, discharge lines and grinder pump stations that are connected to lowpressure sewer lines in which the town holdsthe state permit, but these regulations do notHighlands Newspaper - Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 - 828-526-3228 - Page 3require the town to maintain or hold permitsfor grinder pump stations on gravity sewerlines or force main sewer lines.Public Works Director Lamar Nix said thiscreates perceived inequalities between citizens who differ only in which type of line isconnected to their grinder pump station."The new ordinance will give all people See PARKING page 18Eliminate Mold, Mildew,& Radon Immediately!BeforeHoliday Gift Package!Corkcicle&wine bag 25. a 36 valueThe Hen House488 E. 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Page 4 - Highlands Newspaper - Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 – 828-526-3228ngs DinidnalHigh ateries&E LOOKING AT LIFE A personal letter to my Democrat friends,neighbors and relativesWOpen for Lunch & DinnerMon.-Sat. 11a-until;Sunday Brunch 10a-3pWellstrung performing NovNov. 1, 6:30p untilNow taking Thanksgiving reservations.www.Fresserseateryhighlands.comell, folks, it has finally arrived. ThisTuesday is Election Day so I’m dedicating this column to my manyDemocratic friends, neighbors and relativeswho often pay little attention to politics butusually find the time to read my column.This week’s offering is neither sarcastic norfunny. And yes, I do have Democratic friends,neighbors and relatives whom I dearly cherwith Fred Wooldridgeish. I know, I know, it’s hard to believe.Over the years, we have remained Feedback is encouraged!friends and in the case of relatives, remained askfredanything@aol.comloving family members because we have respectfully agreed to disagree on politics. We have come151 Helen’s Barn Ave. 526-4188at The Main Street Inn270 Main Street (828) 526 - 2590OPENfor Lunch & DinnerServing Breakfast Sat. & Sun.Check website for days and hours:www.mainstreet-inn.com See WOOLDRIDGE page 14Coffee Espresso DrinksSmoothies Frozen YogurtPaninis Baked GoodsCyprus Salads To GoOn Main Street7 days a week 7 a to 6 p 526-0020.on the Verandah Restauranton Lake SequoyahFULL BAR – Beer, wine, cocktailsMake YourThanksgiving BuffetReservations now!to realize that friendships and love aremuch more important. We haven’t become polarized and I believe that’s a goodthing. In reality, our differences are whathelp America remain strong and we areat our best when there is balance.Unfortunately, America is out-of-balance and completely polarized. Regardless of who is to blame for this, in yourheart-of-hearts, you know America is inbig trouble.Right after President Obama waselected, I wrote a column in the High-Serving Lunch and Dinner Year-Round!Open nightly fordinner at 6;Bar open nightlyat 4;SundayChampagneBrunch withBloody Mary Barfrom 11-2Gourmet Foods, Full Service Barat our NEW LOCATION in Town Square!828-526-2338www.ontheverandah.comOpen 7 days a week!Lunch: 11a.m.-4 p.m.; Dinner 5:30-10pOutdoor Dining, too!526-4035NEW LOCATION!343-D Main Streetwww.wildthymegourmet.com

Highlands Newspaper - Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 - 828-526-3228 - Page 5 THE VIEW FROM HERE Full MoonThis week's full moon is expected to addto the torment suffered by East Coast residents this week. Frankenstorm, or thePerfect Storm II, as it might be called is thecollision of an early winter storm and a lateseason hurricane which promises to interruptthe lives of 50 to 60 million Americans andCanadians. Strong winds, torrential rains, andheavy snows will produce misery, as will power outages, expected to be widespread and Dr. Henry Salzarulo lengthy.FeedbackisSo where does the moon fit into all theencouraged.turmoil? Monday is a full moon and the moonemail:influences tides, which are highest at the fulland new moons. High tides magnified the hsalzarulo@aol.comstorm surge throughout the great New YorkCity area. It's easy to imagine a 10- or 15-foot surge wash-ing over a Caribbean island, or even a southern coastal city, but New York! This is an event.In addition to the scientifically documented, and explained, effect on tides, the moon isthought to exert an influence on human behavior. It is a belief rooted in antiquity, andpopular today. The Roman goddess of the moonwas Luna. Lunatic is a pejorative term for thementally ill. Lunacy is their affliction. It wasonce thought werewolves were transformedby a full moon. Today's emergency room doctors and nurses, and police officers are as convinced as their medieval counterparts that thefull moon brings on the crazies, or the lunatics.Proponents, attempting to explain the phe See SALZARULO page 21BreakfastAll DayLong!Highlands D& Eate iningriesFresh countrycooking withgreat prices ANDoutdoor dining!8a to 2:30peverydayClosedWednesdayNext to the Community Bible Church at3601 Cashiers Road 787-2299RusticoAT THE LOG CABINPESCADO’SQuesadillas Tacos BurritosHomemade soups & freshly baked cookiesMonday & Thursday: 11a-7pTues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 11a-3pClosed SundayNorthern ItalianCuisineFull bar, wine & beerDinner daily from5:30pFor reservations,call: 828-526-0999130 Log Cabin LaneHighlands226 S. 4th St. Highlands 828-526-9313CyprusInternational CuisineThe Most Exciting Dining Destination in Highlands!Dinner 7 days a week5-10pN.C. 106 in Dillard Road Shopping Center526-4429www.cyprushighlands.comSkyline Lodge& Altitudes Restaurant“Highlands Best Kept Secret”A unique 4,300’ Mountain Top Retreat designed circa 1929Fine Dining w/Full Service BarPatioOpenOpen for dinner Wed.-Sat. 5:30 til’Breakfast Sat. & Sun. 8-11a Sun. Brunch 12-2pGourmet foods and Loulou’s homemade dessertsWarsteiner back on tap!Live Entertainment Thursday-Sunday(828) 526-2121 and 1-800-5-SkylineDirections: Take Flat Mtn. Road off US 64 east and turnleft on Skyline Lodge Road to 470 Skyline Lodge RoadSports PageSandwich ShoppeServing Breakfast & Lunch!Monday – SaturdayBreakfast: 7:30 – 10:30amLunch: 11am – 2:30pmFull cooked-to-order breakfast &Daily Lunch Specials!314 main Street, Highlands(828) 526-3555

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Rob Moorefield Highlands Now this is funny . or maybe scary is the better word Thanks for supporting the Food Pantry The second annual Empty Bowls, a benefit for the Food Pantry, was a wonder-ful success. Guests were asked to buy a hand-made bowl made at The Bascom, as a reminder of all the empty bowls around the world. They were then served .

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