Journal of a Living Lady #384
Nancy White Kelly
This is Thanksgiving month, a time to reflect on the blessing of family and friends. Most of us categorize friends: close, sort-of close, solid acquaintances from work, church and the neighborhood, old friends who no longer live near-by, very old friends from childhood, and new friends we haven’t [...]

Friday November 5, 2010
835-4592
Needle Felting Class at Yarn Circle
Kay Patterson will be teaching a unique needle felting class
at Yarn Circle on Saturday November 13.
The class is call “Needle Felted Characters” and will focus on using wool materials and small, barbed needles to do character, or doll, parts and features.
“This class is perfect for beginners as [...]

Reel Memories No. 153
Inherit the Wind
By: William V. Reynolds
It was the mid-1950’s and Joe McCarthy’s with hunt was in full swing. Two playwrights, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, were looking for a subject that would parallel the House Un-American Activities Committee. They found it in the 1925 Scopes trial. Many people have taken this [...]

APPLY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY NOW … OR LATER?

When should you apply for benefits? Consider a few factors first.

Provided BY: Steve Zimmerman
Financial Advisor

Now or later? When it comes to the question of Social Security income, the choice looms large. Should you apply now to get earlier payments? Or wait for a few [...]

The elections are over and the Republicans have taken back majority control of the House of Representatives.  The Democrats still control the Senate and the Presidency so they can block any legislation that Republicans initiate to cut back irresponsible spending and eliminate regulations that have motivated business owners not to expand and hire more people.
The [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
Shellacking is an understatement. Rout may be a better word to describe last Tuesday’s election. Finally, the Party of No has taken a huge stake in the future direction of this country. Just saying no is no longer an option. They now have to get off of the couch and take responsibility for [...]

The Green Column
by Richard C. MacCrea, Andrews Valley Initiative
rmaccrea1@gmail.com
The New Construction Economy
For a construction company to survive this recession will require an adjustment to serve a different market, remodeling. There are many reasons to switch to this market:
Customers who cannot afford a new home might be able to afford a smaller remodeling project. Money is [...]

Kendric Lamont Heard, 33, of Warne, NC arrested for assault on a female; injury to personal property on October  25, 2010 and released on October 27, 2010.
Michael Leroy Dills, 51, of Hayesville, NC arrested for extradition/fugitive other state on October 26, 2010 and released on October 29, 2010.
Michelle Spiva Martin, 37, of Hayesville, NC arrested [...]

United Community Bank sold 1.20 acres, Lot 9A (Trillium Heights) in Brasstown Township to Jack W Brinson II for $ 18,000 on October 25, 2010.
Scott W & Allison L Ledford sold 1.19 acres, Lot 1 in Hayesville Township to Southern Multicapital Corp for $ 15,000 on October 26, 2010.
Bruce L Ferguson-TR and Cold Branch LLC [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
As I write this article, I am in Washington, DC, and recovering from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear hosted By Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Between 180,000 and 250,000 people came together to ask this nation to simmer down a little bit and bring back respect to our political discourse. The [...]