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Wipe Out Food Insecurity
Why should you consider volunteering at the Food Pantry of Highlands? It’s common knowledge that community service involvement teaches people of all ages and backgrounds compassion and understanding. Hunger exists everywhere in America, not just inner cities and backwoods. It’s a sad fact that 29.5 percent of Macon County’s children live in households that experience food insecurity. The Food Pantry of …
Calling All Volunteers!
Summer is going to be busy at The Literacy Council of Highlands and we need your help! The Literacy Council truly depends on the talent and time of hundreds of community members each year to meet the needs of students of all ages. The Literacy Council serves adults and children in Macon County with a variety of services and …
Taking Care of Mable
Having just observed Memorial Day, and preparing to celebrate the Fourth of July, it’s natural to reflect upon the sacrifices our men and women in uniform make to preserve our freedom and safety. The commitment they make is one that calls for them to potentially be called away at a moment’s notice. This is a challenging circumstance that affects not …
Stream Bugs: Health Indicators
On April 29, Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust enlisted the help of community members as citizen scientists to collect and identify the aquatic macroinvertebrates (stream bugs) that live in a stream near a conserved property in Scaly Mountain. Nine volunteers met for a morning training session at the Highlands Biological Station for an educational presentation and specimen identification lab. Then the crew headed …
Remembering Angel Amy
Susan Bauknight is an avid supporter of the Hospice House Foundation of Western North Carolina. “I became active on the board in 2014 after seeing the wonderful possibilities that could be open to residents of our seven counties to provide dignity and complete palliative care at the end of their lives,” she says. Bauknight, an artist and retired teacher, appreciates …
Collaborative Healing
Ashby Underwood and Lindsey Mann share a passion for earth-based healing. Ashby owns Yoga Highlands, a therapeutic yoga studio, and Lindsey Mann owns Sustainable Design, an ecological design firm. These two were inspired by the work of FAITH (Fight Abuse in the Home), a non-profit in nearby Clayton, Georgia, to begin local service work at this safe-house for women and …
Sponsor a BBBS Camper
It’s time for camp! And Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cashiers and Highlands are sending 15 children to weeklong, overnight camps this summer. This experience provides participants the ability to join in rock climbing, hiking, canoeing, white water rafting, character building, teamwork, and much more. The kids go to various camps in North Carolina, and they’re able to select …
Carpe Diem Gallops Ahead
It seems as if life is occurring at warp speed! Wasn’t it just January and now it’s July? At Carpe Diem Farms the calendar has been filled with a wide array of activities. The study the University of Florida School of Veterinary Medicine proposed in December to conduct on Easy’s Slipper launched Memorial Day Weekend. We were in Gainesville for …
You Grow, Girls!
Since 2002 the Laurel Garden Club has been helping keep Highlands beautiful. With proceeds from their kitchen tours and sales of their cookbook Celebrate Highlands, the club has contributed over $134,000 in grants to local organizations and businesses for improving their landscaping. Some of the 15 beneficiaries have been the Martin Lipscomb Performing Arts Center, the Highlands Historical Society, …
Reach Farther
Cindy Trevathan, a long-time volunteer for REACH of Macon County, would like to see a larger presence in Highlands. While the shelter and its offices are located in Franklin, REACH serves all of Macon County and now, Jackson County. Her involvement began when she was asked to sit on the board so Highlands could be represented. Eight years later, she’s …
Workouts for Mind, Body, & Spirit
For more than three decades Highlanders have enjoyed the many amenities of the Mountain Laurel Tennis Club. Don’t let the word “tennis” in its name fool you. It’s not just for tennis enthusiasts. Yes, there are three indoor courts (two hard and one clay, plus two outdoor clay courts). Sure, you can still get private or group tennis lessons, …
Take Your Licks
When juicy ripe peaches come rolling in, I flash back to hot Saturday afternoons in July and August in South Carolina. I see our ice cream churn’s drum brimming with Grandmother’s frozen custard mix into which Gramps has chunked handfuls of scandalously sweet peaches, their nectar so abundant it drips down his wrists to his toes. Fathers and uncles arrange …
