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High water and mud was prominent Wednesday after heavy storms dropped more than two inches of rain on large sections of Yancey County. These images were taken in the Jacks Creek Community.

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By Jonathan AustinYancey County News

A series of thunderstorms rolled across Yancey County Wednesday morning, causing flood advisories and severe thunderstorm warnings.

At least two inches of rain fell in many places in the county, and Ray’s Weather reported 2.38 inches overnight in Yancey County.

The rainfall forced the creek over its banks in the Jacks Creek community, and road crews were out early to clear up mud

slides throughout the community.Debris-clogged culverts forced water up

all along Jacks Creek Road, and erosion was weakening driveways well after the sun came up despite the fact that the storm clouds had moved on.

Some area farmers have said rainfall in Yancey is hurting crops, though many are watching market prices for corn and other commodities as the midsection of the nation is wilting under a severe drought.

Crop damage was obvious Wednesday along Toe River Road.

Storms cause localized flooding

The Yancey County Schools child nutrition program will begin implementation of the new federal nutrition standards for school meals this year.

In January, First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled the new national nutrition requirements for school meals.

“When we send our kids to school, we have a right to expect that they won’t be eating the kind of fatty, salty, sugary foods that we’re trying to keep from them when they’re at home,” Mrs. Obama said when the changes were announced. “We have a right to expect that the food they get at school is the same kind of food that we want to serve at our own kitchen tables.”

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The East Yancey sewer expansion has been a topic since before rising seniors at Mountain Heritage High School were born, and the years-long start-and-stop process has led to confusion about what is being built, where it is going, and who can benefit.

The project has been a focus for at least three different county managers and as many as 18 different county commissioners. It began as a project to “keep and attract jobs in Yancey County, by the need to protect water quality in the service area, by the population growth we have experienced, and by the need to replace the aging septic system which serves Micaville School,” notes the county government website.

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Nothing here the Iraqis or Syrians wouldn’t knowThere is now no wonder why folks are

afraid to speak out about corruption in the 24th judicial system under Sheriff Banks and DA Jerry Wilson. Mr. Wilson was so upset to prosecute Tom Farmer he nearly broke down in open court. I could not believe my eyes and ears. Clearly, this man should have re-cused himself from this case. In fact, a spe-cial prosecutor should have been brought in or this case should have been moved to an-other judicial district.

Shame on Judge Lyerly for going along

with this sham of justice. I used to have tre-mendous respect for him, but he approved and orchestrated this molestation of justice. A man with his background, why would he do it? Do they think anyone was really fooled?

No doubt this was planned before the war-rants were ever taken on Tom Farmer. No or-dinary person could have had these charges addressed this quickly or have gotten such a “sweetheart” deal. But, if you are “con-nected” in Yancey County it is easy. Sheriff’s Office + District Attorney + Judge = miscar-

riage of justice! But no one in power cares, because the people in power are corrupt. Dif-ferent levels of corruption, sure. But corrupt. This is scary when you step back and look at the big picture.

One small group controls justice here in Yancey County through rigged elections, threats and intimidation, just like Saddam Hussein did in Iraq and Bashar al-Assad is currently doing in Syria. Do they ever use force, here, too?

This is why I can’t sign my name.

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Healing Prayer Service The Order of St. Luke’s Living Faith Chapter of Burnsville

will be conducting the next inter-faith healing prayer service at First Baptist Church, 125 Tappan St, Spruce Pine, NC on Sunday, July 29th at 3:00 pm. Chaplain Jack Hancox will be officiating. This healing prayer service is held regularly every 4th Sunday of the month. All are welcome. For directions to the church, call (828) 765-9411 .

The International Order of St. Luke the Physician (OSL) is an inter-denominational Christian order of faith, prayer, and service with Chapters all over the world made up of clergy, health professionals, and lay people, who encourage, equip, and empower Christians to fulfill their calling “to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick” (Luke 9:2) by encouraging, equipping, and empowering God’s people for the healing ministry. For more information see the OSL website: http://www.oslregion3.org/.

When I read the lead stories in your July 12 issue, the gripping narratives, the comments of officials, and, especially, the actual transcript of the criminal “trial” of our illustrious “Golden Boy” former Chief Deputy Sheriff, Tom Farmer, I was initially shocked.

Shocked, until it finally dawned on me what these stories really were, and then I started laughing out loud! I thought “Wow! Who knew that this newspaper’s editor has such a fantastic sense of humor? For he’s gone and published an entire issue as a huge, terrifically clever joke! Clearly, he had just made all this stuff up and printed a special “April Fool’s” edition of the paper! Sure fooled me for a while! Ha, ha, ha! He really had me going there for a minute!”

Then I realized “Hey, wait a minute... it’s hot outside - this is not April, it’s July. What’s going on here?” Surely, I thought, these stories can’t be true? Not here in the Land of the Free! Not here, where we all pledge our allegiance to a flag that stands for “justice for all”!

Impossible! This stuff just cannot be true because what it describes is a legal system that’s so far away from “justice for all” that it’s absurd, patently, outrageously wrong.

But... Wake Up, Yancey County! It really is not April. And we’ve learned in the past year-and-a-half that the Yancey County News is NOT a joke, that the editor takes journalism quite

seriously and carefully reports “just the facts, Ma’am,” especially the important ones, the facts that really matter in a democracy where we imagine that our government works for us, not against us.

And, anyway... you just could not make stuff like this up. If you had written this as a script for an episode of some courtroom-drama television series, the producer would throw it out in an instant -- it’s just too far-fetched, something like that could never happen in real life, not in the American justice system.

Hard to believe, yes. Even harder to accept. But the fact is, this DID happen, in real life, right here in Yancey County, that supposedly All-American, apple-pie-wholesome small-town goodness at the heart of America.

Sadly, it turns out that the notion that justice actually exists in Yancey County is just so much wishful thinking -- it is as fictional as Andy Griffith’s Mayberry.

The indictment, the 14-month delay before charges were filed, the so-called “prosecution” by our District Attorney, the defense, holding the trial in Mitchell County, the entire system handling Tom Farmer’s mutiple, criminal, felony thefts of public property is -- pardon my French but, Mon Dieu! it’s worse than merely unbelievable, worse than absurd, worse than rotten -- it is CRIMINAL.

We need to do something about this travesty of justice, this charade being carried out in our names. We need to put a stop to it once and for all, and get rid of these criminals who have been running the legal system here for years and years.

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As a tax-paying, law-abiding citizen of Yancey County I am appalled at what happened in the court house in Mitchell County (Yancey County News July 12 edition). It is a slap in the face of law-abiding citizens and a black mark on our judicial system.

This was a person who swore to uphold the law – who put his hand on the Holy Bible – the word of God our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - and swore to uphold the law, and his lawyer and the district attorney say, your honor, Tom Farmer is a good man; he just made a mistake. And they said many in Yancey County wanted him to drop the charges all together. Wonder who the district attorney was talking to?

The prisons in North Carolina are full of people; why not go around to all these prisons and open the gates and tell these people they are free to go? We’re sorry, we made a mistake for locking them up, and while we’re at it give them each a gun so they can pawn it so they can get some money to take to Harrah’s and do some gambling. And they just might get lucky and win some money. And they could help a needy friend. Or just maybe they could find a place in Yancey County to play some poker.

In all my lifetime, this is one of the worst things I can remember happening in the county. I would suggest that from now on, when the Sheriff’s Department swears someone in, please do not use the Bible. Use a roll of toilet paper, and when they get done with it, flush it down the toilet!

CC Canipe

Don’t forget: Tom Farmer took his

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Schools to introduce meal changes this fall

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From page 1“And let’s be clear, this isn’t just about

our kids’ health. Studies have shown that our kids’ eating habits can actually affect their academic performance as well. And I’m sure that comes as no surprise to the educators here today. Anyone who works with kids knows that they need something other than chips and soda in their stomachs if they’re going to focus on math and science, right? Kids can’t be expected to sit still and concentrate when they’re on a sugar high, or when they’re stuffed with salty, greasy food - or when they’re hungry.

“And that brings me to another important point,” the First Lady said. “For many kids whose families are struggling, school meals can be their main - or only - source of nutrition for the entire day. So when we serve higher-quality food in our schools, we’re not just fighting childhood obesity; we’re taking the important steps that are needed to fight child hunger as well.

“And that’s why so many schools across this country have been working so hard to improve the food that they serve to our kids in school. In fact, there are many schools that have been meeting these new standards for years, long before this legislation was passed. Thousands more have made significant improvements, offering their students a whole array of healthy - and tasty, mind you - new options.” The new USDA guidelines will raise the school meal nutrition standards for the first time in more than fifteen years and will result in healthier meals for 32 million students across the nation. The healthier meal requirements are a key component of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act signed into law by President Obama in 2010.

Yancey school officials say the new standards aim to foster the kind of healthy changes at school that many parents are already trying to encourage at home, including:

• Ensuring students are offered both fruits and vegetables every day of the week;

• Substantially increasing offerings of whole grain-rich foods;

• Offering only fat-free or low-fat milk varieties;

• Limiting calories based on the age of children being served to ensure proper portion size; and

• Increasing the focus on reducing the amounts of saturated fat, trans fats and sodium.

The new USDA rules are built around recommendations from the Institute of Medicine and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and will be largely phased in over a three-year period.

Starting with the 2012-13 school year, every school lunch is required to include larger servings of fruits and vegetables and students must take one or more full servings with each meal. In the past, students were given the option of declining the fruit and vegetable offerings under Offer versus Serve guidelines but they will be required to take at least one full serving with their lunch beginning next school year. Another goal of the federal guidelines is to avoid oversized entrée portions by limiting the size of bread and protein servings and encouraging students to fill half their plate with

fruits and vegetables. Studies show that school systems will incur

rather significant increases in the plate cost due to the new federal standards. The standards are expected to cost $3.2 billion over the next five years.

In recent years, the Yancey County Schools child nutrition department has proactively made many healthy changes by offering a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, only fat-free and low-fat milk, more servings of whole grains, and foods with reduced fat and sodium levels. In addition to these changes, YCS child nutrition has implemented several other healthful initiatives while balancing healthier options with food choices that students are receptive to. Maintaining the balance is a vital part of improving the health and wellbeing of children while helping students cultivate lifelong healthy eating habits.

Yancey County Schools child nutrition has also taken steps to improve the quality of à la carte and snack items sold in the school cafeterias in anticipation of federal nutrition standards for “competitive foods” by increasing the availability of healthier beverages and snack items and by limiting serving sizes. “Competitive foods” are the foods, snacks and beverages not associated with the federally funded school breakfast and lunch programs. The federal competitive foods guidelines, due out later this year, will also encompass foods and beverages sold or provided in concession stands, fundraising activities, classrooms and other locations on school property.

The Yancey County Schools child nutrition department understands its role in helping to combat America’s childhood obesity crisis and is committed to partnering with parents, teachers, school administrators and the community to be part of the solution.

The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 Mandates School Lunch Price Increases

The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, Section 205, says school systems can no longer use federal dollars from the free/reduced price lunch program to help cover the cost to produce a lunch for students who don’t receive free or reduced price meals. Using the Paid Lunch Equity Price Calculator, school systems are required to increase lunch prices by 5 cents or 10 cents each year to equal the amount reimbursed by the federal government for free

meals.Based on the Paid Lunch

Equity Price calculation, regular lunch prices for Yancey County will increase by 5 cents and the mega meal price will increase by 10 cents. As is demonstrated by the following chart, lunch prices in Yancey County Schools are among the lowest in the western region.

During the 2011-12 school year, 59.92 percent of Yancey County students qualified for free or reduced price meals. Applications will be distributed on the first day of school and parents are encouraged to apply for benefits. Applications should

be completed and returned to the school within the first two weeks. Students who are eligible for Food and Nutrition Services (SNAP benefits) are automatically approved for free school meals and don’t need to complete an application. A well-balanced, nutritious school meal improves student learning and health, and helps address food insecurity issues for many families.

NC Region 8 Lunch PricesSchool year 2012-2013 County Elementary Middle/High Mega/Extreme **Mitchell $1.75 $2.00 -- Madison $1.85 $2.10 -- Yancey $1.85 $2.10 $2.40 Asheville City $2.10 $2.35 $2.60 Buncombe $2.10 $2.35 $2.75 Swain $2.10 $2.35 -- Clay $2.15 $2.40 -- Henderson $2.15 $2.40 $2.75 Jackson $2.15 $2.40 -- Polk $2.20 $2.40 -- Transylvania $2.25 $2.50 $2.75 ** On June 13, 2012, the Mitchell Co. Board of Education approved a motion to keep lunch prices the same and subsidize the program with local funds for the 2012-2013 school year.

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Raleigh, NC Tue Jul 24, 2012 USDA-NC Dept of Ag Market NewsWNC Regional Livestock Center, Canton, NC - Weighted Average Report for Monday Jul 23, 2012Cattle Receipts: 202 Last Week: 252 Last Year: 169. Slaughter cattle trended mostly steady. Feeder cattle trended 2.00 to 4.00 higher. Slaughter cows made up 34 percent of the offering, slaughter bulls 8 percent, replacement cows 6 percent, other cows 1 percent, and feeders 52 percent. The feeder supply included 35 percent steers, 35 percent heifers, and 29 percent bulls. Near 19 percent of the run weighed over 600 lbs.

Feeder Steers Medium and Large 1 - 2

Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price 1 295-295 295 160.00 160.00 1 305-305 305 160.00 160.00 6 350-395 380 132.50-150.00 141.59 4 400-420 413 132.50-142.50 136.18 1 455-455 455 127.50 127.50 6 500-540 522 118.00-130.00 123.71 2 550-580 565 110.00-115.00 112.43 1 615-615 615 116.00 116.00 2 675-675 675 118.00 118.00 1 760-760 760 105.00 105.00 Small 1 - 2 1 295-295 295 92.50 92.50 1 340-340 340 120.00 120.00 Full Holstein Large 3 3 305-345 327 80.00-90.00 85.08 2 355-395 375 75.00-80.00 77.37 1 475-475 475 75.00 75.00

Feeder Heifers Medium and Large 1 - 2 Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price 1 220-220 220 157.50 157.50 1 290-290 290 142.50 142.50 2 310-325 318 145.00-146.00 145.49 4 370-390 380 127.50-132.50 128.86 7 420-440 430 120.00-137.50 124.82 1 450-450 450 116.00 116.00 6 515-545 526 113.00-128.00 117.43 3 550-575 565 112.00-122.00 116.66 5 610-645 623 105.00-119.00 112.51 1 650-650 650 105.00 105.00

Medium and Large 3 2 400-405 403 100.00-110.00 105.03

Feeder Bulls Medium and Large 1 - 2 Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price 3 400-440 417 130.00-140.00 136.80 5 450-495 463 115.00-137.50 127.33 2 525-530 528 119.00-125.00 121.99 8 555-595 574 110.00-117.50 113.30 6 600-630 615 105.00-111.00 108.16 1 680-680 680 103.00 103.00

Medium and Large 3 1 520-520 520 108.00 108.00 1 705-705 705 94.00 94.00

Bred Cows Medium and Large 1 - 2 Young Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price1 945-945 945 875.00 875.00 Per Head 1-3 Months Bred1 1040-1040 1040 999.00-1000 1000 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred 3 1270-1435 1327 999-1200 1080.12 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred 2 1000-1175 1088 999-1100 1059.48 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred 1 1385-1385 1385 999-1300 1300 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred Medium and Large 1 - 2 Middle Aged

1 1225-1225 1225 975 975 Per Head 7-9 Months BredSlaughter Cows Breaker 70-80% Lean

Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price 6 1215-1380 1301 73.00-78.50 75.06 2 1270-1305 1288 83.00-85.00 84.01 High Dressing 9 1440-1615 1516 72.00-79.50 76.30 1 1400-1400 1400 83.00 83.00 High Dressing

Boner 80-85% Lean 26 950-1395 1160 70.00-78.50 74.35 3 1110-1375 1203 80.00-82.50 81.26 High Dressing 2 915-1190 1053 64.00-69.00 66.83 Low Dressing 2 1460-1540 1500 74.50-75.50 75.01 1 1530-1530 1530 69.00 69.00 Low Dressing Lean 85-90% Lean 6 1015-1360 1131 60.00-66.50 63.47 4 835-1100 948 54.00-60.00 57.39 Low Dressing

Other Cows Medium and Large 1 - 2 Young Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price 1 810-810 810 81.00 81.00

Slaughter Bulls Yield Grade 1-2 Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price 1 1465-1465 1465 98.00 98.00 1 1220-1220 1220 88.00 88.00 Low Dressing 6 1605-2120 1831 95.00-99.00 96.95 6 1570-2010 1761 100.00-106.00 101.71 High Dressing

Cows/Calf Pairs: (1) Medium 1 and 2 1070 lbs middle age cows with 220 lbs calves 1200.00 per pair. Baby Calves, per head: Holsteins 60.00-90.00. Goats, per head: (26) Slaughter and Replacement Classes: Kids: Selection 1 40-60 lbs 50.00-55.00; Selection 2 20-40 lbs 30.00-45.00; Selection 3 40-60 lbs 25.00. Does/Nannies: Selection 1 70-100 lbs 67.50-72.50. Bucks/Billies: Selection 1 70-100 lbs 70.00-72.50, 100-150 lbs 87.50; Selection 2 70-100 lbs 50.00-62.50.

Regional Market ReportsSTATE FARMERS MARKET - RALEIGHDate: July 18, 2012***Produce availability and prices paid to growers as of 8:00 a.m. If prices are not provided produce is currently unavailable.***Produce Tenant – Wholesale PriceCOMMODITY VARIETY CONTAINERS PriceApples Red Delicious WA Traypack Carton (100s) 32.95-35.75 Golden Delicious WA Traypack Carton 33 -34.50 Granny Smith WA Traypack Carton 34 -36.50 Gala WA Traypack Carton 32 -36 Fuji WA Traypack Carton 34.50-38 Pink Lady WA Traypack Carton 38 -41.50 Red & Gold Delicious Traypack Carton (113,125,138s) 31 -33.65

Red & Gold Delicious 12 3-Lb. Film Bag 25 -29 Asparagus Carton (11 Lbs.) 33.55-34.50Bananas Carton (40 Lbs.) 21.30-23 Beans Round Green 1 1/9 Bushel Carton 37.15-41.25 Pole 1 1/9 Bushel Carton 29 -32 Beets Sack (25 Lbs.) 15.75-21.15Blueberries Flat 12 1-Pint Cups 25 Broccoli Carton (14s) 19.95-21 Cabbage Round Green Carton (50 Lbs.) 16.50-20.05Cantaloupes Athena Bin (110-120s) 200 Carton (12s) 20.65-21.95Carrots Sack (50 Lbs.) 28.65-34.65Cauliflower Carton (12s) 18.05-20 Celery Carton (30s) 37.85-45.05Cherries Carton (16 Lbs.) 48 Cilantro Carton (30s) 18.65-22.65Corn Yellow Carton (4 1/2-5 Dozen) 17.15-20.45 White Carton (4 1/2-5 Dozen) 15 -17.15Cucumbers Long Green Carton (40 Lbs.) 23 -24 Pickle Carton (40 Lbs.) 32 -35 Cranberries 24 12-Ounce Packages 24.50Eggplant Carton (25 Lbs.) 14 -15 Grapes Red Seedless Carton (18 Lbs.) 29 -32 White Seedless Carton (18 Lbs.) 29 -32 Black Seedless Carton (18 Lbs.) 29 Red Globe Carton (18 Lbs.) 28 Greens Collards Bushel Carton/Loose (24s) 10 Kale Carton/Bunched (24s) 11.55-14.35 Turnips Bushel Carton 14 Honeydews Carton (5s) 29 Kiwi Carton (117s) 13.05Lettuce Iceberg Carton (24s Wrapped) 26.50-28.45 Green Leaf Carton (24s) 22 -24 Romaine Carton (24s) 26 -29.50Onions Yellow jumbo Sack (50 Lbs.) 20 -22.55 White Sack (25 Lbs.) 14 -15 Red Sack (25 Lbs.) 15 -22.50 Green Carton (48s) 14.65-19.65 Sweet Onions Carton (40 Lbs.) 22 -24.35Parsley 1 1/9 Bushel Carton 26.50Peaches Yellow/White Flesh 1/2 Bushel Carton 23 Peanuts Green Bag (35 Lbs.) 51 -53 Pears Bartlett Carton (16 Lbs.) 34 Bosc Carton (90s) 34 Pepper Green Bell Type 1 1/9 Bushel Carton 16.55-20 Red Bell Type Carton (11 Lbs.) 25.50-32.50 Yellow Bell Type Carton (11 Lbs.) 28 Plums Red Carton (28 Lbs.) 27 Pomegranates Carton (18s) Potatoes Red Size A No. 1 Carton (50 Lbs.) 16.45-17.15 Red Size B No. 1 Carton (50 Lbs.) 15 -19.50 White Size A Carton (50 Lbs.) 14.35-17.15 Russet ID Carton (50 Lbs.) 19.35-20.05Radishes Red 30 6-Ounce Film Bags 15 -16.85Raspberries Flat 12 1/2-Pint Cups 25.65

Rutabagas Carton (40 Lbs.) 23 Squash Yellow Crookneck 3/4 Bushel Carton 14.35-15.15 Zucchini 1/2 Bushel Carton 16 -18 Strawberries California Flat 8 1-Quart Clamshells 17.15-18.95Sweetpotatoes Orange Carton (40 Lbs.) 16 -21.45 White Carton (40 Lbs.) 20 -20.75Tomatoes Vine Ripe XLge Carton (25 Lbs.) 18.65-20.75Tomatoes,Plum Roma Carton (25 Lbs.) 18 -20 Tomatoes,Cherry Flat 12 1-Pint Baskets 22.95-25.75Tomatoes,Grape Flat 12 1-Pint Clamshells 19 -20 Turnips Topped Film Bag (25 Lbs.) 11.55-22.15Watermelon Seeded Bin 150 Watermelon Seedless Bin 150 Farmers Line – Wholesale PriceBeans Round Green Bushel Carton/Crate 15 -23 Butter Bag (4 Lbs.) 13 Green Butter Bag (8 Lbs.) 20 Speckled Butter Bag (8 Lbs.) 20 Yellow Wax Bushel Carton/Crate 25

Beets Bag (25 Lbs.) 20 Blackberries Flat 12 1-Pint Cups 24 Blueberries Flat 12 1-Pint Cups 20 -23 Cabbage Pointed Head Crate (50 Lbs.) 12 -15 Round Green Crate (50 Lbs.) 12 -15 Cantaloupe Bin (130s) 160 -175 Each 1 -1.10Corn White Crate (4 Dozen) 13 Yellow Crate (4 Dozen) 13 White Bag (5 Dozen) 15 Yellow Bag (5 Dozen) 15 Cucumbers Long Green 3/4 Bushel Carton 15 -16 Pickle 3/4 Bushel Carton 10 -18 Eggplant 3/4 Bushel Carton 10 -18 Honeydew Each 1.50-2 Okra Carton (25 Lbs.) 20 -22 Onions Green Carton (12s) 12 Pepper Green Bell Type 1 1/9 Bushel Carton 15 -20 Jalapeno 1/2 Bushel Carton 10 -15 Hungarian Wax 1/2 Bushel Carton 10 -15 Peaches 1/2 Bushel Carton 10 -12 Peas Dixie Lee 1 1/9 Bushel Carton 15 -20 Bag (4 Lbs. Shelled) 13 Plums 1/2 Bushel Carton 20 -25 Potatoes Red Bushel Carton 22 White Bushel Carton 22 Squash Yellow 1/2 Bushel Carton 12 Zucchini 1/2 Bushel Carton 12 Yellow 3/4 Bushel Carton 15 -16 Zucchini 3/4 Bushel Carton 12 -16 Sweetpotatoes Carton (40 Lbs.) 12 -15 Tomatoes Red, Slicing Field Carton (25 Lbs.) 10 -20 German Johnson Field Carton (25 Lbs.) 28 -30 Tomatoes,Cherry Flat 12 1-Pint Baskets 18 -20 Tomatoes,Grape Flat 12 1-Pint Clamshells 18 Tomatoes,Plum Roma Carton (25 Lbs.) 14-15Turnips Topped 1/2 Bushel Carton 9 Watermelon Seeded Each 3 -3.50Watermelon Seedless Personal Bin (130s) 135 -160 Each 1.25-3

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINACommodity Variety Containers PriceApples Red Delicious WA Traypack Carton 36 -38 Golden Delicious WA Traypack Carton 36 -38 Granny Smith WA Traypack Carton 36 Early Local Varieties 1/2 Bushel Carton 12 -15 Bananas Carton (40 Lbs.) 19.50-20 Beans Snap Bushel Carton/Crate Halfrunners Bushel Carton/Crate 25 -28 Cut Greasy Bushel Carton/Crate 45 Beets Sack/Loose (25 Lbs.) 13.75-15 Blueberries Flat 12 1-Pint Containers 28 -32.50Broccoli Carton (12s) 16 -17.75Cabbage Round Green Sack (50 Lbs.) 10 -12 Carton/Crate (50 Lbs.) 12 -13 Cantaloupes Carton (9-12s) 16 -18.75 Bin (120-140s) 150 -200 Carrots Sack (50 Lbs.) 23.50-30 Cauliflower Carton (12s) 18 -19.75Celery Carton (30s) 28 -34.75Citrus Grapefruit 4/5 Bushel Carton 29.75 Lemons Carton (95s) 31.50 Carton (165s) 30 -34.50 Limes Carton (150-200s) 19 -20 Navel Oranges 4/5 Bushel Carton 22 -26.75Corn Bi-color Bag (5 Dozen) 14 -15 Yellow Bag (5 Dozen) 14 -15 White Bag (5 Dozen) 14 -15 Cucumbers Long Green 1 1/9 Bushel Carton/Crate 15 -16 Pickle 1 1/9 Bushel Carton/Crate 25 -30 Eggplant Bushel Carton/Crate 15 -16 Grapes Red Globe Carton (18 Lbs.) 27.50-28 Red Seedless Carton (18 Lbs.) 20 -29.50 White Seedless Carton (18 Lbs.) 20 -29.50Honeydews Carton (6-8s) 16 -18.50Kiwi Carton (39s) 10 -10.50Lettuce Iceberg Carton (24s) 20.75-22 Green Leaf Carton (24s) 23.75-24 Romaine Carton (24s) 27.50-30 Mushrooms Fancy Carton (10 Lbs.) 16.75-18.50Nectarines 1/2 Bushel Carton Nuts Mixed Sack (50 Lbs.) 60 Okra 1/2 Bushel Carton 17.50-18 Onions Yellow Jumbo Sack (50 Lbs.) 17 -18 White Jumbo Sack (50 Lbs.) 21 -22 Vidalia Sack (50 Lbs.) Peaches Monroe 1/2 Bushel Basket 15 -18 White Rose 1/2 Bushel Basket 15 -18 Big Rose 1/2 Bushel Basket 15 -18 Pepper Green Bell XLge/Lge 1 1/9 Bushel Carton 14 -18 Red Bell XLge/Lge 1 1/9 Bushel Carton 28 -32.50 Jalapeno 1/2 Bushel Carton 20 -22.75Pineapples Carton (5-8s) 14.75-15 Potatoes White Sack (50 Lbs.) 14 -24 Red Sack (50 Lbs.) 15 -24 Russet Carton (50 Lbs.) 13.50-18 Radishes 30 6-Oz. Film Bags 12.50-14 Spinach 12 10-Oz. Film Bags 18 -20 Squash Yellow Crookneck 3/4 Bushel Carton/Crate 16 -18 Zucchini 1/2 Bushel Carton/Crate 13 -14 Acorn 1 1/9 Bushel Carton/Crate 25 Butternut 1 1/9 Bushel Carton/Crate 32 Sweetpotatoes Orange & Red No. 1 Carton (40 Lbs.) 20 -24 Orange & Red No. 2 Carton (40 Lbs.) 13 -14

State Graded Goat and Sheep Sale

Monroe, North Carolina July 11, 2012

Total Receipts: 147 goats, 49 sheep Last month: 395 goats, 143 sheep

All prices are quoted per head.Slaughter and Replacement Classes:

GoatsKids: Selection 1 40-60 lbs 77.50-87.50, 60-80 lbs 110.00-140.00; Selection 2 20-40 lbs 52.50-65.00, 40-60 lbs 72.50-90.00.

Yearlings: Selection 1 40-60 lbs 90.00-95.00; Selection 2 40-60 lbs 63.00-67.50, 60-80 lbs 112.50-120.00.

Does/Nannies: Selection 1 70-100 lbs one at 127.50, 100-140 lbs one at 130.00; Selection 2 50-70 lbs 87.50-100.00, 70-100 lbs 102.50-110.00, 100-140 lbs 90.00-115.00, 140-180 lbs one at 141.00.

Wethers: Selection 1 90-125 lbs 187.50-200.00.

Bucks/Billies: Selection 1 70-100 lbs 119.00-145.00, 100-150 lbs one at 202.50, 150-250 lbs one at 185.00; Selection 2 70-100 lbs 90.00-97.50.

Pairs: Selection 2 100-140 lbs does with kids under 20 lbs 145.00 per pair.

SheepLambs: Choice and Prime 70-90 lbs 85.00-90.00, 120-165 lbs 120.00-185.00; Good and Choice 55-65 lbs 75.00-100.00; Good 44 lbs 8 head at 50.00.

Ewes: Utility 140-200 lbs few 127.50-132.50.Rams: 200 lbs couple 150.00.

Source: North Carolina Dept of Ag-USDA Market News Service, Raleigh, NC

919-707-3154 www.ncagprices.org

Which markets offer Yancey farmers the best return on their investment? Should they head west, east or south? Agriculture and food industries accounted for $29,057,488 in Yancey County income in 2000, or 7.77 percent of the total county income. Livestock, poultry, and their products accounted for 23 percent of the total agricultural market. So this list recounts the prices in the last week at regional farm markets.


Obituaries Robert ‘Paul’ Ponder

Robert “Paul” Ponder, 89, of the Bethel Community died Tuesday, July 24, 2012. He was the son of the late Robert “Bob” and Doshia Tomberlin Ponder. In addition to his parents he is preceded in death by brothers Leslie, Elzie, Lee and Ralph Ponder. Mr. Ponder was a devoted Christian and loving husband, daddy and papaw. He served in the United States Army during WWII and retired from Spruce Pine Mica as a machinist.

Mr. Ponder is survived by his loving wife of nearly 65 years, Atlas Shepherd Ponder, daughter Sharon Buckner and husband Randy; granddaughter Brandi Buckner Ball; grandson Johnathon Buckner as well as several nieces, nephews and loving friends and church family. He also had many loving friends and wonderful caregivers at Madison Manor Nursing Facility.

A funeral service was Thursday, July 26, at Bethel Baptist Church of which he was a member and served as deacon for 46 years and church clerk from 1960-1968. Revs. Eddie Rice and Troy Rogers will officiate. Burial will follow in the Church Cemetery.

Donations may be made to the Bethel Baptist Church building Fund, c/o John Radford, 395 Shake Rag Rd., Mars Hill, NC 28754.

Jerry Lee Griffith Jerry Lee Griffith, 64, of Asheville,

passed away Sunday, July 22, 2012, at Stonecreek Health & Rehabilitation. A native of Yancey County, he was a son of the late J. C. “Rusty” and Gaynell Young Griffith. He was also preceded in death by a sister: Vernell Griffith Hill; and, a brother: Ricky. Jerry was an Army veteran.

Surviving are his sons: Jerry O. Griffith of Rockingham and Eric Lee Griffith of Asheville; 3 grandchildren: Eric Lee Griffith, Jr., Brianna Griffith and Houston Griffith; and, brothers: Duane Griffith of Winston Salem and Wayne Griffith of New York.

Services will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Chapel of Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. Rev. Bill Whiteside will officiate.

The family will receive friends 1 hour prior to the service at the funeral home.

Alice Bertha Campbell Alice Bertha Campbell, 77, of Buffalo

Street, Erwin, Tenn., Passed away July 24, 2012 at Erwin Health Care. A Native of Mitchell County, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Elizabeth Clark Roberts. She was a homemaker and a member of Spring Creek Baptist Church.

Survivors include her daughter, Mary Yelton, and husband E. Y. of Marion, three sons; Austin Butler, of Erwin, Tenn., J. C. Butler and wife Nita, of Bakersville, and David Jason Roberts, of Erwin, Tenn, one sister, Anna Johnson, of Piney Flats, Tenn., eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Friday, July 27, at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Henline - Hughes Funeral Home with Dennis Wall

and Bob McCurry officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow at Clark Town Cemetery.

Joe RobinsonJoe Robinson, 83, of the Double Island

community, died Wednesday, July 18, 2012, at his home. A native of Yancey County, he was a son of the late Melvin and Dovie Buchanan Robinson. He was also preceded in death by sisters: Cora Presnell, Clorene Reo and Pauline Silvers; brothers: Walter Bristoe, Howard, Mack C. and Ralph B. Robinson. Joe was a retired spar mill worker and a member of Double Island Fire Department for 11 years.

Surviving are his wife of 63 years, Lucille Robinson; four sons: Gerald Robinson and wife, Gail, Jimmy Robinson and wife, Evelyn, and Rick Robinson and wife, Teresa, all of Green Mountain and Kenny Robinson and wife, Lori, of Burnsville; two sisters: Betty Smith of Asheville and Marie Roland of Marion; eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Funeral service was Saturday in Double Island Baptist Church of which he was a member and deacon for 43 years. Revs. Ricky Woody and J. C. Wilson officiated. Burial was in the Double Island Church Cemetery.

Linda Beth CreasmanLinda Beth Creasman Allen, 70, of

the Pigeon Roost Community, Mitchell County, passed away on Friday, July 20, 2012, at Brookside Rehabilitation Center in Burnsville. She was the daughter of the late Victor and Josephine Kelly Creasman. She was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Andrew Allen. Linda loved the outdoors where she tended her flowers and garden.

Surviving are her husband Max Allen and a brother, Bruce Creasman of Black Mountain. Mother-in-law, Maefrie Allen of Barnardsville; Brother-in-laws: James Allen of Charleston, SC , Lloyd and wife, Imajean Allen of Burnsville, Lenny and wife, Teresa Allen of Jacksonville, Fl and Tilson Allen of Lancaster, KY, Eugene Allen of Barnardsville, and a sister-in-law, Linda Huntley of Asheville. Several cousins, nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral service was Monday, July 23, in the Chapel of Yancey Funeral Services,

the Rev. Rick Bennett officiated. Memorials be made to Hospice of

Yancey County, 856 George’s Fork Road, Burnsville, NC 28714.

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Store employees said the business was closed as usual Wednesday night but that when they arrived to open early Thursday the back door had been pried open. The alarm and telephone wiring had been cut and the safe in the business had been broached.

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T h e M o u n t a i n Heritage High School Class of 1982 i s holding a reunion.

If you attended Mountain Heritage High School with the class of 1982, we would love to get together with you, class representatives said.

“ I f you moved away or didn’t get to walk across the stage because of one reason or another, it doesn’t matter! We would love for all to attend. Saturday, August 11,

at 6 p.m. at In The Garden Restaurant. The restaurant will be preparing a meal especially for us, $14.95 per person will includes meat, vegetables , sa lad ,bread, dr ink and dessert.”

Please RSVP no later than July 30 to Tammy Riddle McEntyre at 682-7223. You can also RSVP with Fonda Bennett T h o m a s , K a t h y Fender Ray or Angie Robinson Miller on Facebook.

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The Federal No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to notify parents/legal guardians of children attending Title I schools of their right to know the professional qualifications of the classroom teachers and paraprofessionals who instruct their child. All K – 8 schools in Yancey County are Title I Schools.

Yancey County Schools will provide you with this information in a timely manner if you request it. Specifically, you have the right to request the following information about each of your child’s core academic-subject teachers/paraprofessionals:

• Whether the teacher meets the state qualifications and licensing criteria for the grades

and core academic subjects he/she teaches.

• Whether the teacher is teaching under emergency status because of special circumstances.

• The teacher’s college major, whether the teacher has any advanced degrees and the field of discipline of the certification or degree.

• Whether paraprofessionals/teacher assistants provide services to your child and, if so, their qualifications.

In add i t i on , t he l aw requires that all schools that receive Title I funds provide notification to every parent in the school whose child is being taught for four or more weeks by a teacher who is not Highly Qualified. Yancey

County Schools is committed to providing quality instruction for all students.

If you would like to receive any of the information listed above for your child’s teacher/paraprofessional, please contact your child’s school to request forms or you may download forms at http://www.yanceync.net/; select Federal Programs, Title I, TchrQualStmnt.doc. Please return completed forms to your child’s school. Carla McMahan, Yancey County Schools Human Resources Director, maintains these records for Yancey County Schools and responds to parent requests received from schools.

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The Gates’ Studio Wednesday Painters will be exhibiting paintings at the Toe River Arts Council Gallery, 102 W. Main Street in Burnsville from Aug. 4 – Sept. 15.

T h i s g r o u p o f p a i n t e r s c a m e together to share their

love of painting in 2002. Over the years, the membership has fluctuated somewhat, but the group has always had around ten members. This special exhibition of collective works is a celebration of a decade of painting and friendship.

Each of the artists has a distinct style and

preferred mediums and subjects. The exhibit will include landscapes, portraits (both human and animal), still lives, and wildlife created in oils, pastels, or watercolors. Artists i n c l u d e B a r b a r a Deschenes, Pauline D i a l s , S u s a n Garriques, Sandra G a t e s , C h a r l o t t e

Holland, Gaylene Petcu, Anne Sabri, Kathleen Turczyn, J eane t t e Warne r, deJarnette Wood, and Nancy Wood.

Please come and join these artists at the Meet the Artists Reception on Friday, August 17 from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Gates’ studio painters to exhibit at TRAC

From the frontBut from the time the sewer expansion was

envisioned in the last century until today, one industry it was designed to serve has closed, the expected population bulge has evaporated, costs have risen and the exact description of what is being installed has changed.

On top of that, a federal agency has now put a major portion of the work on hold because it says the location of a road to the planned sewer treatment facility has been moved; residents have sought and received a court order to stop the wanton removal of railroad ties on land where the sewer lines are being installed; and at least one landowner says the county never received permission to dig up her property.

And as the county spent years seeking voluntary easements from affected landowners, the ‘price’ of those easements - as valued in the number of free future sewer connections for those landowners - has steadily increased.

But to an observant eye, the most serious questions arise over whether what was promised is what is being built, and whether the county completed the condemnation process to assure it actually had the right to start bulldozing some land.

The sewer line is stretching from the Hickory Springs factory off N.C. 80 S to near the east edge of Burnsville. The sewage will be treated at a facility off of Wyatt Town Road. The resulting effluent will be discharged into the South Toe River.

The county went to court to get easements on some property off Wyatt Town Road near where the sewer treatment facility is being built, and what the court ordered is the crux of some of the confusion.

According to a Superior Court judgment dated Aug. 18, 2011, members of the McMahan family and others were paid $875 at the direction of the court for an easement to allow the East Yancey Water & Sewer District access to build and maintain the sewer line running to the planned treatment facility just upstream.

According to the court ruling, the defendants - the landowners - retain the right to use the land “in the same manner as has been heretofore done,” excluding building structures or planting trees. The order notes that the sewer district “agrees to restore the topography of said easement area after installation of the sewer lines ... to approximately the same condition as existed before said installation.”

The judgment is signed by Superior Court Judge C. Phillip Ginn.

But what the sewer district has actually done with the land is completely different than what was outlined in the order. The county has built a permanent road atop the easement, and plans to use that road as the sole and continuous access for the sewage treatment facility.

When asked to explain why the county had built the road where it only seemed to have legal right to bury sewer pipes, County Manager Nathan Bennett said that engineering maps attached to the ruling show that a road was to be built on the easement. “I don’t know why the language is like it is,” he said Wednesday. “This is the standard language that’s in most of our easements.”

Asked earlier this month in an email how the apparent conflict could be resolved, Bennett replied by email: “This will be a matter for the attorneys to work to clarify.”

It is where the sewer parallels the South Toe River off Wyatt Town Road that the county is facing other issues, as well. One involves landowner Frances Boyd, who owns property near the McMahan land over which the sewer - and now the road - crosses.

A local resident familiar with the situation said Mrs. Boyd inherited the land from her grandmother. The Yancey County News did speak with Boyd about the land, but she did not want to speak on the record.

The individual familiar with the situation said neither the county nor the sewer district has “gotten permission” from Boyd to build or access her land. According to the individual, “the county manager sat right there” in his office and told Mrs. Boyd that the county was going to install sewer pipes, and “the land would be put back in the same shape it was in.”

“Now they’ve decided they are going to put a hard top road” atop the sewer line, the individual said.

Bennett said Wednesday that condemnation proceedings had begun against the Boyd land. “We’ve either got easements or condemnation action. There has been a condemnation against Frances Boyd. I can’t tell you - from a legal perspective - what has happened there. I think all the first (legal) work was done. But I don’t think it was ever taken to the next level” which would result in a judge assigning the easement to the sewer district. “I don’t’ think … she actually got formal condemnation” orders, Bennett said.

Boyd was also upset that the rails that once were a local railbed on the property have been removed.

Others in the Micaville area have been upset over the removal of rails, which they feel have value. Some landowners who voluntarily deeded easements to the sewer district had it put in writing that the rails would be pulled and stacked for the landowners personal use.

Some Micaville landowners have received a court order to stop an individual from removing rails along the old railroad, but Mrs. Boyd was apparently not involved in that case.

Rails have been removed from along Wyatt Town Road, and the county manager says the old railbed was dug up and silt that resulted did apparently flow into the South Toe. He said the removal of the rails was done with no apparent regard for the river or for the land, and no silt fences or other environmental controls were in place. “Environmentally it was a mess; a big, muddy mess that was running into the river.”

But Bennett says the county and sewer district has always intended to use the old railroad bed as the path for the road to the sewage treatment facility,

Brian Tompkins, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, disagrees.

“Why did they put (the road) in? I don’t know. They never informed anybody that they were putting that road in there. They never informed the Fish & Wildlife Service about that road ... in the current location,” he said.

Fish & Wildlife, a federal agency, is tasked with overseeing protection of the South Toe River because the river is habitat for the Appalachian elk toe, an endangered freshwater mussel.

Fish & Wildlife is consulted by the Army Corps of Engineers whenever any work along waterways may threaten endangered species such as the Appalachian elk toe, he said, though it is the Corps that issues permits.

Tompkins says the county originally planned to bring the road in from further up Wyatt

Town, in a manner that would not impact the river at all.

The county has now built the road along the river, thought Tompkins said that plan “was never taken into consideration for any of our analyses of impact on the river.”

But the county manager contends that Fish & Wildlife and the Army Corps had no role in whether the county used the old railbed.

“They didn’t have to be told. That road was not an impact to the river. The only time they should have been notified was where the road crosses (a) stream” on the property, and the county has properly dealt with that crossing to avoid impacting the river, Bennett said. He said the project has been under way for so many years that the federal inspectors who started the project took actions that the current inspectors and biologists don’t know about. “The Corps predecessors walked the road with the ... engineers,” Bennett said. “They said ‘this is an existing impact’ because of the pre-existing railroad,” he said.

“They told (designer) McGill and Associates ‘this is not a new impact. You don’t need to submit it.’ ”

But Tompkins, the biologist, has other issues with the sewer lines along Wyatt Town Road. He says the county was given permission to install a gravity flow sewage line, but now the sewer district is installing a pressurized line from near U.S. 19E to the future treatment facility. He said that increases the risk to the river and the mussels in the event of a leak.

“The reason we have an issue with that is that going back to 2005 we wanted all the pipes off the creeks and off the rivers.” (The county) told us they couldn’t do that because it was all going to be gravity (flow)” so it had to parallel the river. “Once we saw a month or so ago that it was going to be forced” - meaning pressurized - “that changed everything.”

As the pipes on Wyatt Town Road are pressurized, no one whose land there was affected can pipe their sewage into the system, meaning they can’t benefit from having a municipal sewer system.

Others, though, made sure they got their benefit in writing.

Since 2006, more than 25 landowners have assigned easements to the sewer district for the standard legal payment of $1. But as time passed, some apparently began to see the value of having a sewer line accessible on their land. Early on, two landowners received the promise of a total of three free sewer taps on their property, but most of the others apparently didn’t seek to trade an attachment for their land.

Later, though, the idea flourished.At least four landowners asked for and

received two sewer hookups for free, while at least two received three connections. Two more received four connections in return for their easement, and one of those also got in writing that they were to be reimbursed nearly $11,000 for shrubs that might be removed or disturbed by the construction.

One easement grantor sought and received eight sewer hookups from the county.

Bennett said the county has formalized the cost of a future permit to connect to the sewer, but couldn’t come up with the number. Tompkins said Bennett told him the cost to get access to tie in to the sewer will be $3,000 per connection.

To compare, the McMahans on Wyatt Town received $875 for their easement, and no sewer connection, while another resident received eight connections which together would be valued at $24,000.

Bennett pointed out that all sewer customers will pay standard sewer bills once the system is up and running.


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Mel Chin brings his artwork homeSpecial to the yancey County News

For the first time, Burnsville artist Mel Chin will be exhibiting artwork in Western North Carolina as the Asheville Art Museum hosts High,

Low and In Between, an exhibition of Chin’s latest creations, from July 27 to Nov. 25. Prior to this, local art appreciators would have had to travel to other states or countries to view the originals, but now they can experience the projects here at home.

Chin, originally from Texas and a graduate of Peabody College in Nashville, moved to Yancey County over 10 years ago from New York City after establishing a firm presence in the art world. His solo and group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art; the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art; the Seventh Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy; Kwangju Biennale in Korea; Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Menil Collection in Houston; and the High Museum in Atlanta.

A book on Chin, entitled Do Not Ask Me, was released last year. Many monographs and catalogs over the years also feature his works, and another exhibition catalog is now in production and will be based upon a featured Asheville work, The Funk & Wag from A to Z.

The Burnsville artist has been featured on the PBS television series Art21, has been the focus of articles in dozens of art journals, newspapers and magazines, and has received numerous honors, awards and grants. His work is currently showing in Germany, Texas, Louisiana, California, and now North

Carolina. Recently he opened his own website (www.melchin.org) to share a multitude of art mediums, categories, projects, and themes.

In February 2014, a retrospective will be honoring the 60-year-old artist. It will be called Re-Match, and the lifetime of work will be shown at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

When he is not on relentless design-related ventures (recently, for example, to Africa, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Chile, and Canada) the artist’s home base is on 30 acres in Yancey County. And no matter where on earth he is, he’s likely to be designing, inventing, planning, or sketching.

To help materialize these designs, he has hired skilled fabricators from throughout the world - from rug weavers in Turkey to film technicians in New York City, from animators in Chili to auto body painters in Burnsville. And if you hear the workshop rhythms of band saws or welders anywhere in local counties, it could possibly be an employee fabricating one of his latest ideas. He has become an important employer for many residents during the active days of an artwork’s fabrication, installment, documentation, and research.

And you can bet that before the sawdust on his last project can settle on the studio floor, he has already envisioned, planned, drawn, or finalized the details on the next five.

Conceptual Artist

Chin is a conceptual artist, which means, among other things, that he does not limit himself solely to conventional art mediums, such as two-dimensional ink sketches or three-dimensional bronze sculpture, although he produces both.

Rather, he uses/invents/applies any thing and any action in the world that is most appropriate to materialize his concepts and concerns. It seems that the world is both his medium (literally) and his purpose.

One example of this is his Revival Field project. Begun decades ago and eventually in soil located in Germany and Minnesota, Chin formed the earth into a geometrical circle-within-a-square and applied within it living plants, hyper-accumulators that were capable of leaching the heavy-metal toxins from the soil. This inventive, living artwork was done in collaboration with a U.S.D.A. scientist.

With this one ongoing project, Chin fused art, science, technology, the U.S. government, and effective political action, in addition to shape-shifting the role of an artist.

Concerning objects, Chin has said: “Words and human expression can do some of the work, yet objects themselves are loaded with a wealth of information and power and possibilities.” And in creating his conceptual projects, as an illustration, Chin has used loaded objects as his medium: animal parts; hundreds of human glass eyeballs; a prime-time television show; thousands of participating people; 18 computers; gun powder; biochemistry; sand; human bones; the abstract concept of a lie; lead poisoning; world currencies; a chalk board; the New York subway; auto parts; a vehicle; a vending machine; a video game; 5,000 rusted nails; Burnsville bamboo; semi-precious stones; gold; himself as he dramatically slams a sledge-hammer; thousands of metal butterflies; animation; T-shirts; film; hundreds of books; other artist’s works, and an active satellite.

Object To Action

Those who know Chin’s work know that he cares about what’s happening in the world. Instead of a clock, for example, he has proposed that people use a climate countdown widget. It would be connected to cell phones and laptops as a motivation for affecting responsible climate-altering behavior. Called CLI-mate, it would be an indicator of the climatological health of the world tied into each user’s daily input.

In another example, he addressed the concept of animal extinctions. Chin cast non-reproducible molds of the extinct animal’s physical form and installed them in their once natural milieu; that of a Labrador Duck was installed in a pond of water, and a Passenger Pigeon was perched on a tree branch, both in Central Park.

But 20 years ago Chin’s focus graduated from creating art objects to instigating choices of activity via his art. He leaped from artwork to art-at-work; from art to applied-art; from ob-jects to act-jects; from symbol manipulator to choice motivator; from mirroring powerful symbolic objects of art to society, to mobilizing that society powerfully via his art.

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The Penland Gallery wanted to have a show featuring young artists whose work might point in new directions, so they asked a group of artists, teachers, collectors, and curators to suggest artists who might fit the bill. The result is Forecast: A New Wave of Creative Talent, an exhibition that includes many different styles and media - and some striking new ideas. The show runs through September 16 with an opening reception on Friday, July 27, from 7-8:30 p.m.

Included are pieces by 17 artists working in wood, steel, photography, drawing, ceramics, books, textiles, jewelry, and paper. When visitors enter the gallery,

they are immediately confronted by a seven-foot quilt that creates - through intricate layers of appliqué - an almost-photographic self-portrait of the artist. Another wall of the gallery is covered with Melanie Mowinski’s calendars, which are sheets of paper completely filled with tiny words and drawings in a grid representing all the days of a single year. Each of the sheets is an intricate visual diary of a year in the artist’s life.

Israeli jeweler Ruta Reifen is represented by several bright-colored pendants that mimic plant forms and are made from copper, auto-body paint, and epoxy. Ceramic sculptor Yoen Joo Lee

presents a group of six porcelain dolls with oversized craniums, who appear to be kick boxing. Like these pieces, everything in the show involves a novel use of materials or surprising images and forms.

Along wi th th i s spec ia l exhibition, Penland’s small Focus Gallery has a show of Sarah

Loertscher’s silver jewelry inspired by the crystalline structures of minerals. The Penland Gallery also has a sales area featuring work in all media by artists affiliated with the school. Located just off Penland Road in Mitchell County, the gallery is open 10 - 5, Tuesday through Saturday; 12 - 5 on Sunday; closed on Mondays.

Penland Gallery features exhibition for ‘wave of creative talent’


From page 8It seems to Chin the concept of

an artwork trumps its existence; his designed objects are not an end in themselves, but rather they are a means to an action. And it is so important that he lists a category for this on his website: artistic endeavors involving/requiring human action/participation.

He even uses action - as an art tool - for/by himself. For example, while holding an artwork/prop, he may employ dramatic action to prod an audience into awareness. These brief, dramatic, intense presentations in public settings are listed on his website under the category of “performances.”

As Chin redefines what an artist does, he keeps revolutionizing what an artist can accomplish. Another successful example of this is his ongoing Fundred Dollar Bill Project, a national movement that he created which addresses lead poisoning, and involves thousands of people from all 50 states.

To many, Chin has become unclassifiable: a perpetrator of change and a wake-up agent; a cutting-edge futurist; an artist with revolutionary tendencies; a revolutionary with artistic tendencies; a product designer of countless symbolic objects. With the world as his canvas, he seeks ways to actively change/uplift/help the human and earthly condition.

The Burnsville Studio

On busy days on his Yancey County property, you may find a woodworker planing wood in the workshop, a welder, an archivist, a personal assistant on the Internet, and assistants scuttling everywhere else. It’s a place of experiment where things are created to create other things; where walls are stacked with unique handmade tools and jigs.

It’s a place of process where a support frame used to create art can be as complicated or ingenious

as the final artwork itself. In his bronze sculpture, Shape of a Lie, a huge balloon was suspended from the roof and its support frame resembled a 3-D puzzle.

It’s a place where Chin’s double-meaning symbols materialize; where his intellect attacks physical matter; where geometry rules;

where design sensibilities prevail. It’s a place of phases where the

quiet, synaptic buzz of physical metamorphism may rival any excitement at the final end product’s opening night reception.

The Funk & Wag From A To ZOne project that was recently

invented behind the Burnsville studio doors is The Funk & Wag from A to Z, which will be displayed for four months beginning July 27 in the Asheville Art Museum. In this one piece Chin tackles all of written history, up to the early 1950s, which, coincidentally, is when he was born.

In i t he confiscated and then assailed an entire set of encyclopedic facts - all 25 volumes of an encyclopedia - using its thousands of pages of photographs and the implied paradigms and contexts therein. All of its topics, all of its history, all of its facts became Chin’s sandbox to toy with. It was as if the 60-year-old artist challenged a feud with 60-year-old reference books to reshuffle the (editorial) truth (of encyclopedic data). Chin had the advantageous weaponry of 20-20 hindsight and decades of post-publication insights. And the final outcome was his story (history.)

He stripped it of all its written text, then took thousands of black-and-white photographs, and excised, burned, folded, sliced, shuffled, connected, separated, stacked, curled, punched, wove, twisted, chopped, sprayed, intertwined, aligned, layered, melded, punctured, stabbed, extracted, duplicated, pounded, halved, tore, regrouped, sprinkled, pressed, ironed, dropped, slammed, ripped, spun, pinned, dappled, juxtaposed, feathered, stroked, sewed, rubbed, wetted, and glued them.

These were conscious cuts - thousands and thousands and thousands of conscious cuts, where common scissors met the

depth of his perception. F o r e v e r y volume, each manipulation w a s d o n e with astute, intentional, e d i t o r i a l m e a n i n g , a n d w i t h f o r e s i g h t /hindsight and razor clarity.

Then Chin and several a s s i s t a n t s g l u e d t h e

manipulated images onto thick black background paper.

It was a colossal task.Months later Chin emerged

with a reinvented, reinterpreted, reformatted, fractled, entrophied, metamorphosed ‘encyclopedia.’

The books, like a resurrected phoenix, had been given another

attempt at existence; but this time, a very different DNA existence. Each volume of words, from A to Z, had been transmuted into volumes of images from A to Z. Chin ‘re-wrote’ all 25 volumes of the books – visually, and they were now all ‘reprinted’ into 524 collages. His filter had transformed them.

Freed from contextual, cultural, and time constraints, the photos are thousands of ‘now’ moments from the pages of history, with new connections that were not possible (or not intended or not foreseeable or not expected) when originally published. It is as if Chin culled the planet’s iconic moments then ‘big-banged’ them into an illusionary universe. Splayed onto a 2-D wall of collage existence that current culture can’t correct or explain, the 9,446 pages of written history became 524 pages of visual HIS-story.

In the collages, time-warped meetings of famous people occur, Big Bird gets an intervention, extinct animals are recreated, green machines reach new heights, mother nature unfolds, the truth of Nikola Tesla is disclosed, city planning is satirized, wars are reviewed, world figures exchange perceptions, famous art is redrawn, new who-done-it stories are foretold, machines are invented for problems that weren’t recognized, and on and on and on, for hundreds more. It’s a riot of visual puns and comical satire. It’s a play on not words, but on images that represent

our world. It’s a series of “ahah” and “wow” moments.

The piece is organized on walls by volumes from A to Z, and then, within that, by topics that fall within that volume. (The World War II collage is under the “W” volume, for war.)

Observers say it isn’t easy to give a sense of how it feels to experience the piece. You walk into a visual book, the walls lined from ceiling to floor. It engages you to seek resolutions and explanations; to hunt for intended meanings (or intended non-meanings?), and facts (or non-facts?). For those who look close enough (using the provided opera binoculars), it feels like the collages are a visual trip and an inverted world where facts and fantasy collide, where clever entanglements of non-associations occur, where nonsensical rules govern, where trivia pursuers get stuck in time warps, and where iconic mythologies are layered in space/time squeezes.

Perhaps it should come with its own warning label, like from a doctor’s prescription: “Before taking, read all the titles for deciphering clues, and check your mental acuity for balance. Mild disorientation is common. Side effects may include farsightedness, immobilization, eye strain, mind burn, brain freeze, seeing double, dizziness, time-warp sensation, induced trance, lower/higher awareness, or upset stomach.

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‘Mel Chin’s Labrador Duck’ immortalized the extinct species and noted the year it disappeared.

Chin’s Myrrah-PIA (Post-Industrial Age) was commissioned by the city of New York for a New York park.

From Burnsville, Chin unveils the history of the world


Warning, this week’s column is not about the outdoors. It does not contain the warm story that can bring back memories of youth. Instead, it is one of heartbreak and terror.

Last weekend our country experienced something sinister. A lone gunman stepped into a crowded theatre and began to unload round after round into whoever happened to be in front of him. He calculated each move he made, working it to precision until his firearm jammed. At that point he ceased and waited for authorities to come and apprehend him. He did not wish to die in his brief act of evil. He walked into a building where he knew no one would be armed, while protected by armor himself, just in case.

He was diabolical and heinous.Life does not pretend to be fair. Everyone

goes through something they should never have to. A parent should never have to bury their child. A stranger should never have to pay their respects to another who sacrificed the one thing they can never get back so that stranger could see live. Unfortunately this happens. It has happened before and it will happen again.

Often these situations start political feuds. One side will contest if guns were harder to get then a tragedy such as this would never have happened. The other side will counteract the argument with the premise if the gunman would have known someone may fire back that it may have deterred him. I do stand on one side of the argument, but I will not make

the argument in respect to those who have lost their lives.

Again life is not fair, but is just as equally unfair to think if someone of this man’s madness wanted to make the insidious statement he did, that he would have found a way. Madness never belongs in the argument. Timothy McVeigh did not need a gun to cause the destruction of property and lives that he did. Eric Rudolph did not need a firearm to injure more than 150 people and kill two

during his time at large. You cannot create enough barriers to prohibit madness from finding a way.

If there is anything that can be learned, it is this: Life is short; there is no way of knowing exactly when the end is near. We can be taken from this earth by accidents, by health, or by consequences of evil. No one knew that evening when entering the theater that they would not see the film to its conclusion. Because life is short, we must cherish and respect every moment we have.

It is not fair what the people of Aurora, Colorado had to endure, and will have to endure in the next few months. Many lost their life; many more lost their loved one. Meanwhile, the one, and only one, responsible gets to live out a dream of being the key character in his own fantasy movie. In all likelihood, he will have a short time remaining to come to grips with his actions. Then it will be God’s turn to incorporate punishment upon the guilty. Life may not be fair, but God’s judgment certainly will be.

Bill Howard is an avid bowhunter and outdoorsman. He teaches hunter education (IHEA) and bowhunter education (IBEP) in North Carolina. He is a member of North Carolina Bowhunters Association and Pope & Young, and is an official measurer for both. He can be reached at billhoward [email protected].

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Yancey County Schools will be conducting its annual hearing screening during the weeks of August 6-17. Students in the following grades will be screened: Kindergarten thru Third Grade, Seventh and Eleventh grade. All other students will be screened only upon request of the parent, new referrals to the Exceptional Children’s Program, and upon request of special education teachers.

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Quilt Guild presents

quilt show This yearʼs Quilt Show

presented by the Mountain Piecemakers Quilt Guild will be held from Thursday, Aug 2-10 at the Burnsville Town Center, weekdays f rom 10 a .m. -5 p .m. Saturday will be 8:30 to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 p.m.-5 p.m.. Admission is $# and children 12 and under are free.

The Guild currently has 73 members who enjoy not only the monthly meetings held on the second Tuesday featuring well known keynote speakers, but also workshops, a Quilt Bee held during the week as well as a Saturday Bee.

G u i l d m e m b e r s participate in a monthly donation of beautiful quilts for children through Project Linus, which provides qui l t s to chi ldren in hospitals, family violence situations and other trauma events.

At Christmas the Guild sponsors at least one family in need from Mitchell, Yancey and Madison counties by providing gifts or other assistance.

In conjunction with the Quilt Show the members make a quilt each year that is raffled off to raise funds to purchase fabric to make the Project Linus quilts, bring in speakers for programs and workshops, etc.

Those interested i n b e c o m i n g a member of the Guild may call Angie at 828-691-0449 or Dorothy at 619-922-0052.

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By John RosemondJim Fusilli, rock and pop reviewer for

The Wall Street Journal, recently opined that Rolling Stone magazine’s Top 500 Songs of All Time reflected “boomer bias,” pointing out that a disproportionate number of selections were from the 1960s and 1970s. That got me thinking of the many times I’ve been accused of idealizing 1950s child rearing. I do, in fact, often compare the manner in which children were raised in those halcyon days with today’s “parenting,” daring to say that the 1950s was a much better time for kids.

One example: We controlled our games. We decided what, where, and when we were going to play. When we were of sufficient number, we picked the captains who choose the teams (so we learned to play both with and against everyone). We figured out who was going to play what position, the rules, fair versus foul, and so on. Today’s kids play organized sports that are micromanaged by well-intentioned but very misguided adults who actually think they’re doing them a favor. We may not have become better ball players (debatable) but we had more fun, developed better social skills, and we never got trophies for anything.

I maintain that compared with today’s kids, we boomers had much better manners, more respect for adults, and better social skills overall. For example, we looked people in the eye when we talked to them and we didn’t grunt. But in all fairness, we weren’t

connected to cell phones and other forms of anti-social media. We wore our shirts tucked into our pants, which fit, and the only kid who wore his hat turned around backwards was the catcher on the baseball team.

It’s a fact that the mental health of children in the 1950s was considerably better than is the case concerning today’s kids. We were a whole lot less likely to become seriously depressed, commit suicide, or develop debilitating anxieties.

We were less violent. When I attended Valdosta High School in Valdosta, Ga., almost all the junior and senior boys came to school with guns in the trunks of their cars during hunting season. The principal knew as did all the parents and teachers. No one was concerned. From what I gather, Valdosta High School was by no means unique in that regard.

Most boomers came to first grade not knowing their ABCs, yet we outperformed today’s kids at every grade level while sitting in what today would be considered

overcrowded, underfunded classrooms. We achieved economic independence from our parents at earlier ages. By the time I was 24, I knew of no one my age still living at home. And we were not living in posh digs, by any means. My wife and I, for example, brought our first child home to a 40-foot long single-wide trailer. We got a ride from the hospital because we had no car. We ate lots of frozen chicken pot pies (after cooking them, of course). But we didn’t know we were poor. We were free! Today’s kids, by and large, are not programmed for deprivation of any sort.

I’ll stop there. Fusilli might say I suffer from “boomer bias,” but I most definitely do not. Tom Brokaw called my parents’ generation the Greatest Generation, but he was most definitely wrong. The Greatest of All American Generations was the generation of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and George Washington, but the next few generations still burned brightly. In 1839, Alexis de Toqueville wrote that “In American there is strictly speaking no adolescence. At the close of boyhood, the man appears.” It’s been sliding slowly downhill since then, I think, and more recently, it’s fallen off a cliff.

In short, I do not idealize the 1950s. Nonetheless, I am convinced there really is such a thing as the “good old days.”

Family psychologist John Rosemond answers questions at rosemond.com.

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sit in a void, breathe deeply, and immediately contact your local wine supplier.”

The work has been installed in several other American cities, but Chin feels it is time to show what he, with his Yancey County fabricators, have built behind those Burnsville studio doors. It’s time, he feels, to share those endeavors with his mountain neighbors.

T h e r e w i l l b e s e v e r a l Chin works on display at the Asheville Art Museum, as well as opportunities to meet the artist and hear presentations. The display opens July 27, though an opening reception is planned for Aug. 3

from 5 to 7 p.m., delayed a week so as to not conflict with the Bele Chere street festiva

Also, a presentation by Chin of his animation film 9-11/9-11, which won a Pedro Sienna Award for Best Animation in 2007, will be shown on Sept. 11.

Additional events are planned and will be announced in the Yancey County News.

The Asheville Art Museum is located at 2 South Pack Square in Asheville. Admission for the Chin show is $8 for non-member adults, while non-member seniors, students, and children pay $7. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 5; Sunday, 1 to 5; and closed on Monday.

Honeycutt family plans reunion

The descendants of Moses Honeycutt and Margaret Stout will hold a reunion Sunday July 29, at the Laurels Shelter #2 at the intersection of State Route 361 and Sciota Road in Carter County,

Tennessee. Gathering will begin at 10 a.m. with a potluck meal at 1 p.m. Bring your covered dish, drinks, lawn chairs and memorabilia. A musical jam session will be held, so bring your instruments and join in. For information, contact Barry Creek at 423-741-5944 .

Chin shows in AshevilleThe Funk & Wag From A To Z installed in Texas.

The Yancey County Board of Eduation approved these personnel actions at their monthly meeting on Monday night.

Superintendent Transfer – Lynn Honeycutt, from Itinerant Middle School EC Teacher to Itinerant Elementary EC Teacher serving Clearmont and Bee Log Elementary Schools; Angie Beaver from School Bus Driver EYMS to School Bus Driver MHHS

Resignations accepted – Jan Robinson, Julie Rice, Brandi Gilliland, Aimee Lovejoy, Joe Morrill (from YCLA Bus Monitor position only)

Employment - Meghan Huskins, 5th Grade Teacher, Bee Log Elementary (1/2 time); Stacey Erin Carver, 3rd Grade Teacher, Bald Creek Elementary; Ashley Hughes, 5th Grade Teacher, Bald Creek Elementary (pending background check); Judi Davids, 7th Grade Language Arts Teacher, Cane River Middle; Marshay Huskins, 7th Grade Math Teacher, East Yancey Middle; Karen Gurley, EC Teacher, Cane River Middle; Lucy Lodge, EC Teacher, East Yancey Middle; Beth Penland, ½ Media Assistant, MHHS & ½ Title I Teacher, Cane River Middle (Head Volleyball

Coach for MHHS); Lauren Newson, Family And Consumer Sciences Teacher, MHHS (pending background check); Shannon Street, EC Assistant, MHHS; Jeanne Proffitt, YCS Finance Office; Sundi Buchanan, Child Nutrit ion Substitute; Karen Higgins, Child Nutrition Substitute (current bus driver); Rhonda Penland, Classroom Substitute; Belinda Woody - Classroom Substi tute; Sarah Henson - Classroom Substitute; Lisa Surber - Classroom Substitute; Ayla Archer - Classroom Substitute; Becky Whitson - Classroom Substitute.

The board was notified of these vacancies:

Teacher Assistant, Micaville Elementary; Bus Driver, EYMS; Bus Driver Monitor, YCLA; 1st Grade Teacher, Burnsville Elementary; EC Bus Driver, Burnsville Elementary; Position to Fill – JROTC Instructor, MHHS

The board approved Yancey County Schools Handbook, an Employee Handbook; and student handbooks for Bald Creek Elementary, Bee Log Elementary, Burnsville Elementary, Cane River Middle, East Yancey Middle, Micaville Elementary and South Toe Elementary.

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The benefits of delicious raw milk cheesesMedea GalliganMS Nutrition

Cheese is one of America’s favorite foods. The saturated fats involved in cheese give it a rich flavor and a comfortable feel. This popular food can be extraordinarily good; however, it is often highly processed and made out of an inferior dairy supply. Raw unpasteurized cheeses, from grass-fed cows, not only have naturally good taste, but also a powerhouse of naturally occurring nutrients, enzymes and probiotics.

Cows naturally eat grass; however, 90% of dairy cows are raised in a tight, confined stall and fed a diet of genetically modified corn and soy. This grain diet is not genetically congruent for the cow’s internal ecosystem and the cows build sickness and disease. They become very acidic, which creates an ideal breeding ground for infectious bacteria such as E Coli. In the mainstream dairy feedlots, illness and infection are very common. Powerful antibiotics are used to keep infectious bacteria down, but these also damage the natural micro flora the animals need to maintain good health. This creates an even lower natural immunity and contaminates the dairy with antibiotic substances and other dangerous chemicals.

The majority of industrial farms utilize Bovine hormone injections to increase size and weight. Increasing hormone levels boosts milk production. This also increases levels of utter infection, pus formation, antibiotic residue and a cancer accelerating hormone called IGF01.

Grain-fed dairy roducts are inflammatory

Grain-fed cows produce dairy and cheese that is very high in omega 6 fatty acids. The average ratio for a cow on a grain-fed diet is roughly 25:1 (omega 6:3). This is genetically incongruent for all mammal species. Humans should naturally have an omega 6:3 ratio around 4:1 or 2:1. When these ratios become skewed, they trigger cellular inflammation and accelerated cellular degeneration. This environment causes an individual to become highly inflamed and to build degenerative disease. When the cows have this acidic, inflammatory environment, they become very thirsty. They drink significantly more water than grass-fed cows (as there is natural hydration in the grass). This water helps to increase dairy production, but the milk is thinner and less tasty.

Years ago, a well-treated cow may have lived close to 20 years. Consider that the typical cow begins lactating around age 2; that is 18 years of dairy production. In 1950, typical cows lived around 10-15 years. Today, the average dairy cow in an industrial farm lives 5 years (3 years of lactation). During these 5 years, the cows are massively fed and stressed to produce the absolute maximal

amount of dairy.Natural grass-fed cows produce

between 3-5,000 gallons of milk a year while g r a i n - f e d , h o r m o n e injected cows can eas i ly p r o d u c e over 20,000 g a l l o n s a yea r. Th i s i s a h u g e a d v a n t a g e f o r d a i r y product ion

because they can feed the cows on government subsidized grains while massively producing dairy.Grass-fed is anti-inflammatory

Cheese from 100% grass-fed cows has a perfect omega 6:3 ratio of 2:1. It also contains 5x the amount of Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA), which is an extraordinarily powerful cancer fighting nutrient. CLA is known to boost metabolism and fat burning while enhancing natural immunity. This form of cheese is also a great source of highly bioavailable calcium & magnesium, amino acids and vitamin A, D3, & K2.

What is raw milk?Raw milk is cow, sheep, goat

or even buffalo milk that has not been pasteurized. Pasteurization is a process in which milk is heated to a certain temperature and kept there for a time judged sufficient to kill harmful --- or pathogenic --- organisms. Cheese made from raw milk is also unpasteurized, although in other respects it is made in essentially the same way as cheese from pasteurized milk. Proponents of raw milk products say they are more healthful and better-tasting; critics warn about food-borne illness dangers and dispute the claims about health.

Raw milk health benefitsOn the benefits side of the fence,

raw milk advocates such as Dr. Ron Schmid, a naturopathic physician who practices in Connecticut, feel that raw milk is better for calcium metabolism; helps reduce allergies and eczema; provides a high quality source of the eight essential amino acids and can often be consumed by people who are intolerant to lactose. Sally Fallon Morell is the author of “Nourishing Traditions” and the president of the board of the Weston A. Price Foundation, both of which strongly advocate the use of raw milk. In her book, coauthored by Mary G. Enig, Ph.D., Fallon comments that only raw foods --- including raw milk -- contain enzymes which help in food digestion. Minerals, vitamins and proteins are all 100 percent metabolically available in raw milk, according to a comparison between raw and pasteurized milk by A Campaign for Real Milk, sponsored by the Weston A. Price Foundation. The raw milk in this case was tested at an independent laboratory chosen by the Certified Raw Milk Commission and was compared to

California regulations. According to this group, pasteurizing milk destroys vitamin A and the enzyme phosphatase; decreases vitamin C; decreases protein digestibility by 4 percent; decreases the biological availability of protein by 17 percent; destroys about 38 percent of vitamin B complex; and decreases the total amount of soluble calcium.1

A short history of Pasteurization

The man most responsible for popularizing pasteurization in the years around 1900 was Nathan Straus. Straus (1848-1931) made his fortune in business and then dedicated some thirty years of his life to championing the pasteurization of the milk supply in New York and other cities throughout America and Europe. His interest was originally to help reduce the very high infant mortality rate in the mid to late 1800s, and the cause was thought to be due to the quality of milk available to New York’s poor. According to Abraham Jacobi, MD, president of the American Medical Association for many of those years and friend and ally of Straus, “part of New York was supplied by cows fed on brewer’s swill in Long Island stables, which no cow had an opportunity to leave at any time after having been imprisoned there. There she was kept in foul air, standing or resting in her own manure, with no other food, sickening until her tail rotted off and her skin broke out in gangrenous ulcers, and she died. Such was a goodly part of the milk that reached our households. It was more or less white or bluish, more or less impure - or rather, dirty - half a day or a day old. When it was used for the baby it was rarely strained or boiled, often mixed with water which was more or less impure. The vast majority of households were those of working people in small dwellings, or even in tenement houses of four or five stories. What was done with the milk when it reached the household? Of present improvements none existed. Food stuffs would deteriorate rapidly

and intensely. Ice could be obtained only by the better situated families. The tenement house people and the poor had none. The milk had to be kept in the coolest part of the dwelling, if there was such a place. I always advised boiling the milk for infants as soon as it arrived, and again once or twice in the course of a day. We knew nothing then of bacteria, but I felt sure that a minute’s real boiling would accomplish all I could hope for. At all events, my order was, ‘NO RAW MILK.’”

Conditions had only marginally improved by 1893 when Straus established the first of his “Milk Depots” for the distribution of low-priced pasteurized milk. The yearly death rate in infants and young children was about fifty percent of the birth rate. Many of those deaths were from diarrhea and infectious diseases, including typhoid, cholera and diphtheria. Some died of tuberculosis, then the leading cause of death in the population at large. Straus, Jacobi and others were convinced that many of these diseases were spread by milk and that many deaths could be prevented if the milk supply to the cities were pasteurized. In the absence of official action, Straus began his own crusade to pasteurize the milk supply of New York City.

For Straus and those officials who backed him, pasteurization was a matter of economics and practicality. Most recognized that certified milk was safe and healthy, but it was expensive to produce and sold for two to four times the cost of ordinary milk. As a practical matter, the enforcement of strict rules of hygiene on the 40,000 independent dairy farms that supplied milk to New York City was impossible. Pasteurization was seen as a quick, technological fix that would make New York’s milk safe to drink.

The popularity of Straus’s milk depots grew rapidly, and several more were established in the city. Coincident with the increasing use of pasteurized milk, the death

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From page 14rate among infants and young children dropped dramatically, circumstantial evidence that poor quality, contaminated raw milk was indeed the cause of much illness. Infant mortality began dropping in the years immediately following the establishment of the first milk depots. With widespread pasteurization, it fell further, from a rate of 160 deaths under one year of age for every 1,000 births in 1906 to 90 in 1916. Deaths from typhoid fever in New York fell as well, from 15 per 100,000 in 1908 to 4 in 1916. But chlorination of the water supply to New York City began during these years, eliminating a potential source of typhoid. Automobile use grew, and fewer horses and their excrement polluted city streets and water supplies. Other changes as well led to more sanitary conditions in New York and other cities, and it is impossible to know to what degree these factors and pasteurization itself affected the mortality figures.

The push for pasteurization in the late 1800s and the early 1900s is best understood in light of an understanding of the conditions of the era. Some advocates for raw milk argue that the pasteurization of milk is an unmitigated evil, that all raw milk is safe, and that there was never any reason for public health authorities to advocate pasteurization. The authoritarian and often deceitful excesses of the push for compulsory pasteurization of all milk came later, in the 1930s. Advocates for raw milk should understand, however, that sloppily produced and contaminated raw milk in America’s circa 1900 cities caused considerable disease and death. Pasteurization began as an apparent solution to this acute problem.

Straus saw milk as a problem because “it is the only animal food taken in its raw state. When milk is used raw the germs are taken into the human system alive. The milk problem is to prevent this without cooking the milk.” Pasteurization was seen as the solution. From the very beginning, we see that proponents of pasteurization failed to understand fundamental nutritional principles. They did not see that germs per se are not the problem, that every traditional culture that has ever existed has emphasized the importance of raw animal foods in the maintenance of human health, resistance to disease and optimal reproductive capacity. Proponents also failed to recognize that the heat of pasteurization fundamentally alters the nutritional value of milk. And they failed to realize that only by creating conditions for healthy cows could a truly healthy milk supply be created.2

Over 100 years later, after a century of much improved sanitation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration still calls raw milk a “serious health risk,” warning that it can harbor dangerous bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli, and listeria, which cause food-borne illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adds that pasteurizing milk does not significantly reduce its nutritional value and that both raw and pasteurized milk can cause allergies and lactose intolerance. However, the CDC also does admit that pasteurization does inactivate some enzymes in milk and reduces some nutrients.

The European viewpoint

In contrast, it is interesting to learn that in Europe, where raw milk products of all kinds including cheese are readily available, the European Food Safety Authority does not even mention raw milk as risky. The EFSA notes the most common food-borne pathogens in Europe, campylobacter and salmonella, are

common in raw poultry meat and eggs, but it makes no mention of raw milk. However, it says that the less common listeria infections may come from ready-to-eat foods such as cheese.

The raw milk difference

If you decide to make your own cheese, consider using unpasteurized raw milk. Enzymes and good bacteria make raw milk cheese more complex and flavorful than cheese made from heat-treated milk. Many raw milk fans tout its purported health benefits, which include clearing up asthma and ear infections in children, improving osteoporosis in seniors, and even helping autistic kids with behavioral and mental function.

Raw cheeses are fermented and cultured foods that begin with raw dairy and contain enzymes and beneficial bacteria – all good for your digestion and your gut. Raw cheese is then naturally processed through old world traditions. This means that the cheese process begins minutes after the morning milking. Because the milk is so fresh, it isn’t necessary to pasteurize it. The natural heat (around 101.5 degrees F) involved in the cheese-making process preserves the naturally beneficial enzymes in the milk which aid in the digestion of lactose and in the absorption of protein, calcium and other critical nutrients. Raw cheese also has a richer and deeper flavor than pasteurized dairy. To make raw cheese, the raw milk is cultured by encouraging the proliferation of already present beneficial bacteria, or by adding more beneficial strains of bacteria and/or yeast to the milk. So not only are there outstanding nutritional benefits because of the quality of raw milk, but the culturing also heightens the probiotic levels and therefore, the probiotic benefits.3

In all low temperature (below 115 to 118 degrees) methods of fermenting raw milk, the benefits are outstanding. The milk lasts longer, for several days or weeks, or in the case of cheese, for many months. The enzymes and bacteria remain viable; as opposed to using higher temperature processing that would kill them. Here’s how culturing dairy – specifically, consuming various raw cheeses – aids the body, according to Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell:

• lowers cholesterol and protects against bone loss;

• provides beneficial bacteria and lactic acid to the digestive tract, which guard against illness, pathogens and help to fully digest our food;

• increases vitamin B and C content during fermentation;

• those with lactose intolerance are able to enjoy raw cheeses because a large part of the lactose is transformed into lactic acid;

• contains lactase to help break down remaining lactose in the digestive tract;

• increases enzyme activity that contributes to digestion.

Allergy fighting

One of the benefits found within research on raw milk is its ability to help people reduce their allergies. According to an article on the US News website, a European study of nearly 15,000 children published in the May 2007 issue of “Clinical and Experimental Allergy” found that raw milk greatly reduced asthma and hay fever in children. The Los Angeles Times site also stated that a study of about 100 children in Crete, published in the journal “Clinical and Experimental Allergy” in 2001, found that raw milk significantly

reduced rate of allergies among urban children. Additional benefits of raw milk cheese comes from omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and conjugated linoleic acid, an important immune system booster.

Lactose intolerance

If you love cheese, but you are sensitive to the lactose contained in it, then eating raw milk cheese may be the answer you are looking for. Raw milk contains a lactose-digesting Lactobacilli bacteria, which is normally killed off during pasteurization in traditional milk. Unheated milk contains its full complement of enzymes and lactase-producing bacteria needed by our bodies to break down and assimilate the milk sugar lactose. These helpful bacteria are killed in the pasteurization and homogenization processes.

Pass on Pasteurized

Wondering if you can do the same thing with pasteurized milk? Nina Planck, in Real Food: What to Eat and Why, answers this question.

“Raw milk is important to cheese. The enzymes and beneficial bacteria in raw milk aid fermentation. Pasteurized milk limits the action of rennet and retards ripening. Though many good cheeses are made from pasteurized milk, cheeses made from raw milk often contain more complex, subtle flavors — sometimes richer, sometimes mellower. People also swear by raw milk cheese for its beneficial enzymes and bacteria, which are tonics for digestion and immunity.”4

To learn more about raw cheese, go to www.HealthyLifestyleConcepts.com and click on the page “Beyond Organic Healing Foods”. Here you can learn about, and purchase, delicious raw cheddar and harvarti cheeses made from raw milk from Beyond Organic’s GreenFedTM dairy cattle. And if you are interested in sampling these delicious raw cheeses, as well as cultured vegetables, probiotic drinks, and delicious omega3 chocolate, be sure to register for my Fermented and Cultured Foods workshop below!

Free Workshop on Making Cultured & Probiotic Foods

Tuesday July 31 7-8:30 p.m.A FREE workshop on making cultured

and probiotic foods is open to the public! The workshop will begin with a short presentation on the importance of “living” foods in a modern world, and then attendees will have the opportunity to sample, and make from scratch, naturally fermented sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, and a variety of delicious cultured vegetables. We will also be sampling raw farmstead artisanal cheeses, GreenFedTM Beef, two different types of healing probiotic dairy drinks, and even ultra-healthy high omega-3 probiotic chocolate!

Registration is required and space is limited.Call Medea Galligan, MS Nutrition,

a t ( 8 2 8 ) 9 8 9 - 9 1 4 4 , o r v i s i t w w w.HealthyLifestyleConcepts.com to register for this workshop.

Sources[1] Mendelson A. “The Astonishing Story

of Real Milk,” Mother Earth News, October/November 2011. Pg 34-39.

[2]Excerpted from The Untold Story of Milk by Ron Schmid, ND, available Fall 2003, NewTrends Publishing, Inc.

[3]http://www.kennyscountrycheese.com/[4] http://www.ejnet.org/bgh/nogood.html


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