Woodfin


Town recipient of several grants


By Matt Tate Te Town of Woodfin plans to


use several grants to help construct a sidewalk on Riverside Drive that will connect to the Elk Mountain Road sidewalk leading to Woodfin Elementary School and Woodfin Town Hall. Te Woodfin Board of Aldermen


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voted to administer $47,000 for a Health and Wellness Trust Fund to go toward the project during the board’s monthly meeting Tuesday (Sept. 21). Woodfin Town Administrator


Jason Young expects a Safe Routes to School grant in the amount of $100,000 to be used with the side- walk construction as well. He said the price tag on the work


should be $170,000 or less, mean- ing town funds will be needed for only a small portion of the work. He added roughly 33 percent of


Woodfin Elementary School stu- dents are within walking distance of the school.


Big Ivy Big Ivy Book Club


By Nancy Dillingham Te Big Ivy Book Club will meet


at 10 am on Saturday (Sept. 25) at the Big Ivy Community Center at 540 Dillingham Road to discuss Jeannette Walls’s memoir “Te Glass Castle.” Te title of Walls’s highly read-


able memoir of her childhood comes from the author’s father and his plan to build the family a dream house–the glass castle. Walls recounts a tale of her fam-


ily’s struggle to maintain a home and any semblance of stability. Te children are often hungry and cold and the objects of ridicule and vio- lence, sometimes getting beaten up by other children at school. On the surface, Walls’s parents


seem capable and highly intelligent; yet, somehow they are never quite able to keep a roof over their fam-


ily’s heads and food on the table. Te mother, though she has


teaching credentials, and twice takes teaching jobs, would rather stay at home and read or paint. Teir father can never hold down a job, and his drinking makes the life of Walls and her siblings extremely unpredictable and chaotic; often the family has to “do the skeedad- dle” to keep out of trouble or harm’s way. Despite the chaos in the family,


Walls recounts tender moments of family togetherness. For example, Walls, her older


sister, and her younger brother and sister can read by the age of three or so because the family has “reading time” where they can all read the classics and study them. Another incident that Walls re-


counts tugs at the heartstrings. For Christmas, the father takes each child out under the stars and tells


Nancy Dillingham.


them they may choose one of them for their Christmas present. Jean- nette chooses Venus, the brightest “star.” Her father tells her that, though Venus is not technically a star, she may keep it. Tis memoir is totally absorbing and memorable.


www.weavervilletribune.com Te town also received a $75,000


grant from the 2010 Recreation Trails fund that will go toward constructing a portion of a green- way. Te Buncombe County Parks,


Greenways and Recreation depart- ment is exploring development of a 15-mile greenway corridor along the French Broad River from Broadway to the Madison County line. One-third of the proposed tract


would be in town limits, and Woodfin officials are looking at ways to develop other town green- ways that could eventually connect to the French Broad greenway. Greenways are protected open


spaces managed for conservation and recreation purposes, usually following water features and link- ing parks and other cultural fea- tures. Te aldermen are currently re-


viewing a greenways, sidewalks and bikeways plan for the town. “Having a plan is very useful for us to solicit grants for these types


of projects,” Young said. Another grant from FEMA will


go toward an emergency generator for town hall. In other news, the town joined


Buncombe County’s Scattered Site Housing Program that will help fix up qualifying homes in the county. Te county will disperse $400,000 in the next three years to repair homes where the owners fall below 50 percent of the median income. Te town will donate $500 to


the Anthony Charles Case Law Enforcement Scholarship Fund. Case, a former sheriff’s lieutenant and a law enforcement instructor at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, died recently in an ATV accident. “He helped the Town of Wood-


fin in numerous, numerous ways,” Chief Brett Holloman said of Case. Te town hopes to move into its


new public works building soon. Te aldermen approved securing a loan from BB&T for the $325,000 facility.


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