by Anthony Brown | Oct 9, 2012 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
Jolene Sneed, school social worker at Smokey Mountain Elementary School in Whittier, was recently presented with SUBWAY® Restaurants School Health Champion award. She received $500 to help promote and advance her school’s health-related efforts. Local SUBWAY®...
by Anthony Brown | Oct 9, 2012 | COMMUNITY sgadugi
Primary teeth, more commonly referred to as “baby teeth” are all too often viewed as unimportant. After all, the child is going to lose them anyway, right? Yes, children will lose all their baby teeth but, these teeth are still VERY IMPORTANT. Baby teeth have very...
by Anthony Brown | Oct 9, 2012 | COMMUNITY sgadugi, Front Page
Each year, thousands of volunteers across the country participate in the largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands in America, National Public Lands Day (NPLD). Locally, students and staff of the Oconaluftee Job Corps CCC contributed over 250 hours of...
by Anthony Brown | Oct 9, 2012 | Happenings
CULLOWHEE – A presentation of “The Liars Bench” show focusing on Appalachian journeys will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center. Special guest for the show will be author and storyteller Dot Jackson, a...
by Anthony Brown | Oct 9, 2012 | NEWS ka-no-he-da
By JEREMY WILSON Jeremy Wilson has recently been awarded a scholarship by the Trail of Tears Association (TOTA) to attend a conference and symposium on Oct. 22-25, hosted by the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and TOTA’s Oklahoma Chapter. Each year a national...