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Carpe Diem Farms
My reflections are my story with horses. Many have asked over the years why I do what I do. Someone yesterday said, “This is a 24/7 job, you never close.” He got it on his first visit. Horses are not pasture ornaments, they require a lot in our environment to stay healthy and happy. Winter requires more vigilance: attention to …
Dog Walking at CHHS
One of the most common New Year’s resolutions goes something like this: “Starting now, this is the year I’m going to lose weight and get into shape!” To help you achieve that goal, there is a multi-billion-dollar industry out there anxious to separate you and your pocketbook, from gym memberships and equipment purchases, to shakes, supplements and pills. At the …
3,400 Acres of Conservation
Piece by piece, our mountain vistas, waterways, forests and trails are being conserved by Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust. Over the last 110 years, HCLT has protected over 3,400 acres in over 100 places. In 2019, we completed three conservation easements (landowner retains ownership) and two land donations, each has high conservation value, such as rare species, diverse habitat or landscape …
Summit Charter Receives Grant
Summit Charter School, a tuition-free K-10 public charter school on the Cashiers-Highlands Plateau, today announces it has received a grant from the Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation to fund a full-time school nurse for one year. Zandra Wingfield has fulfilled the full-time position and started on October 16. This is the first time the school has had the funding capacity to …
Looking Ahead
I’m here at the one-year anniversary of my position as Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC Program Coordinator of Cashiers and of Highlands, and what better way to celebrate than with with the amazing families and supporters within the BBBS community? I took on this role in February of last year, thinking I had an idea of what to …
Let’s Wait and See
Every decade has its theme-word or phrase: 1960s: Bummer 1970s: Can you dig it? 1980s; Awesome 1990s: As if 2000s: Word 2010s (the Cell Phone Gen): Swag, Emoji, APP, Hashtag, Selfie . . . just pick one. 2020s: Let’s Wait and See (already established this decade and guaranteed to spill over into the next) “Let’s wait and see” is code …
The Pursuit of Understanding
It is difficult to pick a beginning point for this story because I could easily trace my interest in writing, and especially writing on theological subjects, to being a very early reader who was also immersed in Bible stories and what I saw as many contradictions. This awareness of the contradictions in the stories as well as the contradictions …
Balanced by Nature
The imagination runs wild when you first enter the new Village Green Commons. It’s a chameleon of an event venue in the heart of Cashiers containing the Commons Main Hall, Gardens, and Outdoor Pavilion and Lawn. With the aim to continue the Village Green’s mission to “preserve and enhance land for our community’s civic, spiritual, academic, recreational and cultural activities …
The Antibiotic Dilemma
There is a lot of sickness out there! Have you noticed that colds linger longer and the flu is feared by all? There is a lot of news covering the resistant strains of bacteria that no longer respond to antibiotics like they did years ago. The reason that this is happening is due to over-prescribing of antibiotics, often on the …
2020 Healthy Resolutions
With the start of a new year, many of us make resolutions to pursue healthier lifestyles. Since February is Heart Month, we turned to Patti Wheeler, MD, for some advice on how to ensure that our hearts are healthy and happy throughout the year. Dr. Wheeler has served generations of Plateau residents, and she’s come up with some easy ways …
Cemetery Ramble
The Cashiers Historical Society’s October 2019 Cemetery Ramble started inside the Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church with a lecture on the history of the church presented by Carol Bryson and Ann McKee Austin. Afterwards, the group went outside and visited the first burial sites in the cemetery, placed there in 1876. Within a plot surrounded by a wrought-iron …
A Matter of Faith
Well over a century ago Elder F. M. Jordan wrote: “There is a fine valley at the head of the Tennessee River, a fine farming country, thickly settled. The Baptists once held that country pretty generally. But they fell out amongst themselves, and jars, discord, and strife crept in among them, and they excluded some, and some took letters and …
