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41237
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Founded by Karen and Clark Sorrells, the Academy for the Arts in Asheville offers instruction on various musical instruments and choir singing.
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41179
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After retiring to North Carolina, Sam and Debbie Stebbins achieved their dream of opening up a bed and breakfast in Burnsville. The historic house was once home to the Bucks, a still prominent family in the area.
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40668
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Working since the 1980s, Brian Boggs has brought beauty and function to classic wooden furniture.
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42596
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The glass works of artist Dale Chihuly were exhibited around the Biltmore estate from May to October 2018.
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41262
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Steve O’Neil always loved wildlife and being outside and made a living out of helping out wildlife and teaching others to do the same.
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41270
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First Step Farm is a community of substance dependent adults; the inhabitants, who are divided by gender, work together to grow annual and perennial flowers. In addition to work in the greenhouses, the residents attend therapy sessions and treatments.
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The Gran Fondo is a national series bike race with three different courses depending on skill, which not only is a competition, but shows off the natural beauty of western North Carolina.
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Hannah Siler and her father both shared a love of the outdoors and biking, but when her father passed suddenly, Hannah decided to do a cross-country bike ride to raise money for a scholarship in her father’s name that she is starting for students to attend a wilderness course.
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The June Jamboree, put on by the SAHC, is a day of free guided hikes throughout the Roan Highlands region. They offer several different hikes depending on ability levels.
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42608
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A triennial festival, LEAF, promotes connecting cultures and creating community through arts and music. It operates in ten countries around the world to encourage youth to be confident within their own cultures.
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The use of glass for art began to make its mark in the 1960s in Ohio and quickly spread to the Penland School of Crafts outside Asheville. Since then, the area has become a beacon for glass artists from across the country.
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Pisgah View State Park is the sixth state park in Western North Carolina. Republican senator Chuck Edwards introduced the bill authorizing its addition. The Cogburn family donated the land which they had originally owned since 1790.. In 1941, Ruby and Chester Cogburn opened the very popular Pisgah View Ranch on the tract. The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy helped facilitate negotiations between the Cogburn family and the state.
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Four initiatives yielded for William David the 2019 Young Eco-Hero Award: recycling hard to recycle items; Eastern box turtle conservation; invasive species prevention; and French Broad watershed water quality project. Information pointing to his potential and promising a future in conservation: a mentor from the NC Arboretum; career plans involving engineering.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 16 Issue 11, November 2019,
p76-77
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Recycling; Conservation of wildlife; Wildlife conservation; Watersheds--French Board River; French Broad River--watershed water quality initiatives; Arboretums--North Carolina ; Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy; STEM education ; Environmental nonprofits--Action for Nature; Environmental activism
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41235
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As the nature of farming is dependent on the seasons and crops, it is a constant struggle for farmers to find reliable help in the form of farm laborers. A workshop, Managing Farm Labor: How to Structure Labor on the Small Farm, was put forth by the Organic Growers School to address these issues.
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A new education and outreach program has begun at Pisgah National Forest called River Rangers. Currently the forest is seeing more visitors than ever. The River Rangers program aims to inform visitors for reducing habitat disturbances for endangered species in the forest. O particular concern is the hellbender salamander.
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