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Touching Lives Forever | Highlands Literacy Council
Gerry Doubleday would be the first to say that just thinking about the importance of literacy gets him emotional. “I clearly remember the first time I heard about the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. I had no idea that if kids aren’t reading at grade level by the end of third grade 74 percent of those struggling readers won’t ever catch …
Creating Lifelong Learners | Center for Life Enrichment
Center for Life Enrichment in Highlands is all about learning. Educational lectures are abundant at CLE, but throughout much of spring and summer 2020 were shuttered due to statewide mandates limiting the number of people assembling. “We have to have more than 10 people to make it worthwhile for us,” said Bonnie Dayton, marketing director. “Most events in October are …
Carpe Diem’s Gentle Wisdom
From its inception, Carpe Diem Farms has been a sanctuary for all God’s creatures great and small. With the majority of programs designed for human interaction with the resident horses, we’ve also provided home for many cats and dogs. We were designated an Audubon Sanctuary two years after we opened in 1997 and have been the site of a …
Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation
We can hardly believe it’s fall. Breaking news is overflowing at the Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation. In case you haven’t heard, we are funding a comprehensive weekly Covid-19 testing program for local schools, including Highlands School, Summit Charter School, and Blue Ridge School and Early College from September through December. This is a trail-blazing project for K-12 public schools …
Invasives Begone | Mountaintop Rotary
A grant from the Mountaintop Rotary Club of Highlands and matching grant funds from Rotary District 7670 have enabled the new RotarACT Club of Highlands to launch its first project. The project has the goal of removing non-native invasive plant species in and around the town of Highlands, community roadways, and local non-profit owned properties. In addition to the benefits to …
Conserving | Highlands Cashiers Land Trust
Do me a favor. Close your eyes. Wait, you have to read this whole paragraph first, then you can close your eyes. Next I want you to picture what you love about the Plateau. Go ahead, I’ll wait. You might conjure several images – there is so much to love about our community! Now tell me, did …
Victories in Small Things | Counseling during Covid
For starters, I looked up “coping.” The first definition is a “sloping cap of a masonry wall.” How appropriate! I do feel as if I’ve slammed into a brick wall whose top I can’t climb over. 2020 has been incredibly difficult the world over. Most of us have spent life relatively free of global catastrophes. We have come to perceive …
I’m Your Huckleberry Friend
All of you who know me, know of my beloved White Labrador Retriever Maisie, who recently transitioned beyond the “Rainbow’s End,” waitin’ ‘round the bend. Today is the one month anniversary of the day that I lost her and for a time, (and still) it felt as though my life had ended, too. Loss has taught me so many things …
Plateau Style | AllysonK Design
Though Allyson Kirkpatrick’s AllysonK Designs Studio is based in Charleston, South Carolina, her projects take her all over the Southeast. “When I was designing in Atlanta several years ago, The Cashiers Designer Showhouse, enticed me up to the high country – I made the trek for years,” she says. “Then a couple of friends bought into the area and …
Covid! What? | Aery Chiropractic
Practically sounds like a cheer, right? Not…but let’s discuss what positives we can glean from these last 6 months. C for Courage – no matter our situation or stance, we have had to draw from courage many times over. For me, should I keep my office open and be there for the patients who need me? This was a daily …
Secret Waters | Elopement Venue Highlands NC
Water. Aqua. Adam’s Ale (yes that is, actually, a synonym for water). Never has there ever been a more celebrated natural resource. It’s vital for all forms of life. I am, myself, a Pisces, and for my whole life those around me have said things like, “You are such a Pisces!” And, although, I have no idea what that means, …
The State of Franklin | Highlands History
Nathaniel Macon, for whom Macon County was named, was a nonconformist states-rights advocate/legislator who had no use for a strong central government, taxation, and infringement on personal freedoms. Sound familiar? While North Carolina’s Piedmont and Coastal regions were handily developed and accessed by a network of roads, the mountains weren’t. Travel was limited to Indian trails, few roads, no rails. …
