ETOWAH -- A community meeting to discuss the idea of incorporation of Etowah will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the fellowship hall of the Etowah United Methodist Church on Brickyard Road. All residents are invited to come and share opinions.
BREVARD -- Transylvania Community Hospital will host a free program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Hampton Inn in Brevard. As part of the "Dessert with the Doc" series to educate the community, Drs. Paul W. Pumilia and Kamla Jain will give a presentation about how to dominate diabetes.
April is National Poetry Month and is a celebration of poets and their poetry. The Friends of the Library are joining the celebration by presenting the Seasoned Poets of the Blue Ridge. They will appear at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Kaplan Auditorium of the Henderson County Public Library.
The Seasoned Poets of the Blue Ridge are an established and recognized group of woman poets. They will present their latest verses during the performance. Morris Kaplan, after whom the Kaplan Auditorium is named, will join the group and read from his works. Other presenters at this program are Karen Heggen, Rusty Breeding, Edith Pederson and Helen Van Boer. The program is free.
The Book-to-Movie Club at the Henderson County Public Library in Hendersonville has received a certificate of recognition as an outstanding adult program from the N.C. Public Library Directors Association. Circulation librarian Brenda Hind created the club, which began in January 2006 with the movie To Kill a Mockingbird and the book by Harper Lee.
Although many public libraries host book clubs, the Hendersonville Book-to-Movie Club is a unique concept designed to introduce moviegoers to the books on which many well-known movies are based. Club participants meet at 4 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month in Kaplan Auditorium to view the movie and again two weeks later to discuss the book in relation to the movie. Artistic commentaries by the director and cast members are shown before the movie at 3:30 p.m. Participants have input into movie and book choices, and copies of the featured books are set aside for them at the circulation desk.
The 2007 schedule of movies and books includes The Accidental Tourist starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis on Tuesday and the novel by Anne Tyler on April 24; The Manchurian Candidate starring Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh and Laurence Harvey on May 8 and the novel by Richard Condon on May 22; The Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou on June 12 and the novel by Dan Brown on June 26 with guest discussion leader the Rev. Eugene Witherspoon; and The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Peter Lorre on July 10 and the novel by Dashiell Hammett on July 24. The movies as well as the book discussions are free and open to the public. Further information can be found at www.henderson.lib.nc.us/bookclub.htm#book2movie.
ASHEVILLE -- Matt and Ted Lee, food writers from Charleston, S.C., will appear at Earth Fare at 1856 Hendersonville Road from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Their first cookbook, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-Be Southerners has recently been nominated for a James Beard award and two IACP awards. The cookbook will be available for purchase at both the Westgate and South Asheville Earth Fare stores.
The brothers, who write about food for The New York Times and are the wine columnists for Martha Stewart Living magazine, will be in the store to answer questions, sign books and hand out samples of three dips from their cookbook.
BREVARD -- The Jim Bob Tinsley Museum and Transylvania County Heritage Center is hosting clogging lessons in April. Dottie Tinsley will instruct.
An organizational meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the museum at 20 W. Jordan St. Dates and times for the six one-hour classes will be finalized during the meeting. The instruction will be based on traditional, free-style clogging.
Tinsley has clogged throughout the United States at concerts and special events. In 1952, she was the first person to clog dance at the Florida State Folk Festival in White Springs, Fla. Last November, on her 80th birthday, she and long-time friend Elizabeth Rahn clogged in front of the Transylvania County Courthouse. Tinsley has taught clogging classes for many people of all ages.
A short history of clogging coupled with a demonstration of mountain traditional, free-style clog dancing will be given. The classes are limited to five students to allow each person individual instruction. All proceeds benefit the museum. If interested or for more information, call 885-2923 or 884-2347.
The Heritage Hills Support Group for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is sponsoring a presentation by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Asheville Regional Center. The presentation will take place at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Heritage Hills Clubhouse.
Judith Pittillo, hard of hearing specialist, is the guest speaker with Tzena Keys, interepreter/ support services consultant, who will sign the presentation. The topic is Challenges of a Hearing Loss.
The program is set for 7 p.m. in the meeting room of the County Administration Building at 100 N. King St. The public is invited. Speakers will be William Thomas, a chemist representing the Sierra Club; James Hrynyfhyn, a biologist and scientific writer from Saluda; and Margie Meares, director of the Clean Air Community Trust of Asheville.
Western Carolina Community Action has developed its streamlined annual PHA Plan for the Housing Choice Voucher Program for fiscal year 2007, in compliance with the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998. It is available for review at the office, 526 Seventh Ave. E., and at www.WCCA.net.
A public hearing will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Etowah's Lion Den on Etowah School Road. The public is invited to attend and comment on the plan.
The Arts Council of Henderson County has been awarded a $10,750 grant from the Janirve Foundation. Money received from the Janirve Foundation will be used for exterior renovations to the council's offices and gallery on Main Street at the corner of Sixth Avenue.
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