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The Recovery Journey
NAMI Appalachian South, the local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is excited for the spring and seasons! The mission of NAMI North Carolina is to provide support, education, advocacy, and public awareness so that all affected by mental illness can build better lives. Here’s what we’re offering this year: Family to Family – For family members of …
The Equine Experience
Who would have ever thought that at the end of a dirt road, eight miles from Highlands’ Main Street, Carpe Diem Farms would be the site of a discovery changing the lives of horses around the globe? Little did we know 25 years ago when we began “Exploring the Human Potential Through Equines” that the horses of CDF would be …
Faux Fur Ball
It’s spring again, and Friends for Life invites you to join us for our 10th annual Faux Fur Ball. Those of you on our mailing list may have already received your private invitation. Some of you know that this celebration is actually, “No ball at all. So don’t put on your ritz and glitz, just send us a donation for …
Literacy for Life
While we all know that literacy is important, specialists are now informing us that the first 2,000 days of a child’s life are even more critical than we thought. From the website first2000days.org, we gain more insight into this process: “Brains are built, not born.” The brain is one of the only organs not fully developed at birth. Most …
Satulah’s Peak Experience
Satulah Mountain has been a place of significance for a long time. To the Cherokee it was known as “Grumbler” or “Snorter,” perhaps a place to stay away from. To the first settlers it may have looked like a sitting stool and perhaps Satulah is a derivation of “Stoolie.” In 1909, the residents of Highlands thought enough of the mountain …
Gracious Guides
Imagine you’ve just battled the mountain road up to Highlands. It’s your first trip here and you’re stumped. Yes, it’s beautiful. Yes, there is hiking to be done, but where? If you’re smart, you’ll stop by the Highlands Visitor Center. They have everything you need for a well-informed visit – maps, brochures, magazines, and gracious volunteers to answer your …
Rotary, Keeps Us Rolling
For over 70 years the Rotary Club of Highlands has brought people together from all walks of life who want to use their expertise for the general good; people whose sense of responsibility inspires them to give back to the community. This flagship community organization was chartered May 2, 1945, and has been active and growing ever since. Highlands School …
A Look Into the Heart
Abandoned and left to die. Starving, lost and alone. Crippled by blindness. How many obstacles must be placed in the path of a soul before they finally give up on humanity, and give up on themselves? But Paisley did neither. This amazing three-year-old Labrador mix was dumped on the side of the road in Glenville last August and forced to fend …
Better Health is a Choice
We often take health for granted until we hit a bump in the road, becoming ill or developing a problem. The body innately wants to be healthy and does a great job keeping itself in homeostasis or balance but we still abuse our systems just by modern, everyday living. There are many obstacles today that we didn’t face 30 to 50 …
A Tapestry of Green and Sun
The Village Green is a 12.5 acre park in the heart of Cashiers, attracting thousands of visitors each year. The park is designed to be a free, public space to enhance the community’s mountain lifestyle. People come to enjoy the large lawns, gardens, amazing public art, woodland and wetland trails and the large children’s playground. Dogs and their owners especially …
Eat Breakfast, Lose weight
If you’re like most Americans, you eat a high-carb breakfast packed with cereals, bagels, muffins, and fruit smoothies, or you don’t eat breakfast at all either because you’re too busy or you want to lose weight. You are sabotaging your weight loss goals by destabilizing blood glucose and insulin after the night’s fast. Breakfast is exactly what it sounds like …
Kaboom Boy
I had an English Bulldog named Bentley. And like his automobile namesake, he passed gas from intake to exhaust. Once he was soundly snoring at my feet and expelled a methane cloud that nearly set my hair and the curtains on fire. It was so loud it woke him. He jumped up, stared at his butt, and then barked at …
