Commentary


Old buildings, new future My wife and I were driving


through the South Carolina low country last weekend and as we were reminiscing about our week on the coast with our 15-month-old son, we would intermittently marvel at the number of 19th-century and early 20th-century homes still remark-


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ably intact. It’s impossible to tell whether


these houses remained because of generational attachment, local pres- ervation work or years of careful and prideful restoration by their owners, but they were grand, unique, quirky and everything else century-old con- struction should be. Preservation work can be costly,


heart-wrenching, frustrating and time-consuming. After all, it is a process of keeping something to- gether that is, by its very core, des- tined to break down. Yet, it is still very, very necessary. Locally, several projects are in the


Burying free speech Pool to open soon


works while others are in need of a jumpstart.


as all the preservation projects-to-be, in North Buncombe deserve com- munity support wherever needed.


Te North Buncombe Association


of Concerned Citizens is not fight- ing to preserve a structure but rather land that a concrete plant is looking to build on in the Flat Creek com- munity. Te libel lawsuit filed against the


NBACC and its president Aaron Pohl-Zartesky has been yet another turn in this twisting saga that has gone on for three years. Te suit maintains a letter issuing


environmental concerns and a car- toonish depiction of a concrete truck and school bus colliding are false and meant to inflict ridicule and disgrace


on the plant’s owners. I’ve read the suit in its entirety and


it reeks of contempt for public con- versation. Blue Ridge Concrete has every right to conduct its business and the NABCC has every right to publish what is essentially an editori- al cartoon and allude to environmen- tal problems at other concrete plants owned by Blue Ridge developers. By filing this suit, Blue Ridge has


done nothing to improve its impres- sion in the area. It appears the group is only trying to put a muzzle on any criticism before a decision is made on the air quality permit.


Correction Te Weaverville Tribune printed an incorrect phone number for


the Weaverville Milling Company in last week’s article. Te correct phone number is 645-4700.


Phone or Fax Te swimming pool at the Big


Ivy Community Center is sched- uled to open this weekend. Regular pool hours will be from


1 pm to 5 pm seven days a week. Cost is $3 per day. Families can


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June 29. In other news, Young said the


town is hoping for $180,000 from two grants for construction of side- walks down Elk Mountain Road extending from Woodfin Elemen- tary School. Te Woodfin Summer Camp be-


gins Monday (June 21). Mayor Pro- tem Geneva Maney will be organiz- ing the event.


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eral years ago for a Go Grocery that never came to fruition. At the time, it was being touted as office space. Whoever ends up purchasing the home should do everything in their power to keep the funky Victorian vibe and asymmetrical layout left the way the eccentric Zebulon Baird designed more than a century ago. Te Town of Woodfin has dis-


cussed renovating the old Ash-Co building on Weaverville Highway as a new town hall. Whatever comes to pass, that building is another that is too unique to raze. Tese and other projects, as well


Te Weaver House near Walmart


will eventually be moved into a safer and more pristine location, a neces- sary development for a house that serves as a elegant backdrop of sev- eral historical photographs. Te Baird House in Woodfin has set empty since it was moved sev-


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Baldor awards scholarship Weaverville


Baldor Electric Company Foun-


dation recently awarded Mariah Buckner with a $2,500 scholar- ship. Tis competitive scholarship was introduced this year to provide educational opportunities for the


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children of Baldor’s employees. Buckner, a graduate of North


Buncombe High School, will be a sophomore in the fall at Asheville- Buncombe Technical Community College.


She is the daughter of Mr. and


Mrs. V.C. Buckner. Her mother Cynthia Buckner is employed by Baldor in Weaverville.


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