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When Torahs Tumble To the Floor, What’s a Shul To Do?

Published in Asheville Attractions on September 24, 2013

North Carolina Synagogue Drops Two Torahs on Kol Nidre

Service Interruption: During Kol Nidre, two Torah scrolls fell from the ark on to the bimah at Beth Israel in Asheville, N.C. The shul, like others before, must determine how to move forward.


By Roni Robbins

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WVU Tech to host USCAA Soccer Championship – Daily Mail

Published in Asheville Attractions on September 24, 2013

Twenty collegiate soccer teams along the East Coast and throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region of the U.S. will be making their way to the Mountain State Oct. 30 to take part in the four-day USCAA Soccer Championship.

The United States Collegiate Athletic Association announced in January WVU Tech will play host to the 2013 and 2014 USCAA Men’s and Women’s Soccer National Championships. Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C., hosted the event in 2011 and 2012.

The championship contests will be played at the Schoenbaum Soccer Stadium at Coonskin Park and the Friends of Coal Trace Fork Soccer Complex in South Charleston.

“One year ago, our men’s team was in Asheville competing in the championship and we said ‘Hey, we can do this . . . We can bring this event to Charleston,’ ” WVU Tech Athletic Director Frank Pergolizzi said Monday at a press conference at the Charleston Civic Center.

WVU Tech submitted a bid to the USCAA in November. The school worked with the Charleston Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, the Charleston Marriott Town Center and the Holiday Inn Express to organize the event.

“I believe that what attracted the USCAA to Charleston is the close proximity of the downtown

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Schools tighten security after Sandy Hook

Published in Asheville Attractions on September 24, 2013

Source: USA TODAY

Visitors to any of 53 elementary and middle schools this year in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer School District will need to be buzzed in. Their arrival will be captured on camera. And that’s about all security manager Ray Byrd wants to say about that.

“We have to be careful not to put information out there that can be exploited by the bad guys,” he says.

In a grim reminder that mass shootings have become a fact of life in America, school districts across the USA this fall are opting for more locked doors, more visitor check-ins and more surveillance equipment. Many have had security policies on the books for years, especially after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. But the massacre last December at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six educators, introduced a new level of urgency. Suddenly, even children in elementary schools were not safe from bad guys.

“Sandy Hook changed the playing field,” says Curtis Lavarello, executive director of School Safety Advocacy Council, based in Sarasota, Fla. “We realize now every school is vulnerable to that kind of a tragedy.”

Limiting access to school property has been

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Great stops along the Blue Ridge Parkway

Published in Asheville Attractions on September 23, 2013

Ready for a road trip? The Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, through North Carolina, to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, makes for a beautiful drive no matter the season. From scenic overlooks to historic mansions, here are 10 great spots, from north to south, along the Parkway that are worth the drive.

Where to stop on the Blue Ridge

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The Politics of the Board: Part 2

Published in Asheville Attractions on September 23, 2013

W. Louis Bissette, Jr.
Positions on the Board: Bissette works on the Audit Committee and is Chair of the Budget and Finance Committee.
Connection to the System: Bissette earned his law degree at UNC-CH in 1968 and was a member of the Western Carolina Board of Trustees.
Term: 2011-2015
Political Activity: Hans is board chairman of McGuire, Woods and Bissette — a law firm in Asheville. Bissette served as mayor of Asheville from 1985 to 1989 and served as chair of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. Bissette also worked as a political adviser for the Grove Park Inn. Bissette’s contributions have largely leaned toward Republicans, donating $3,500 to Republicans officials, including Gov. Pat McCrory and Lt. Gov. Dan Forrest and N.C. General Assembly members Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Buncombe, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, R-Guilford, and Sen. Tamara Barringer, R-Wake. But in 2008, along with donating to McCrory’s first gubernatorial campaign, he donated to Democratic candidates, including N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, N.C. Superintendent June Atkinson and David Young, a candidate for N.C. Treasurer.

Roger Aiken
Positions on the Board: Aiken serves on the Audit Committee and Budget and Finance Committee.
Connection

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State launches craft brewery trail

Published in Asheville Attractions on September 23, 2013

“These brewmasters are local and they’re making beers that taste good with the foods they eat, crawfish and oysters and cochon du lait. That’s the difference between Louisiana craft beer and the very good craft beer from Oregon or Boston for somewhere.”
Jay ducote, “Bite Booze” blogger

Beer and boudin proves a popular combination, says Ben Berthelot, who as head of the Lafayette tourism commission is charged with entertaining an increasing number of visiting food and travel writers to Acadiana.

New Orleans is the draw, what people come to Louisiana to see, Berthelot says, like what the Eiffel Tower or Louvre are for France. But food and travel shows are expanding their search for the colorful.

“We needed something unique. So we started driving them to some spots on the boudin trail and stopped by one of our breweries,” said Berthelot, president of the Lafayette Convention and Visitors Commission said. “It seemed a natural fit. And they like it.”

Busloads of tourists from Europe show up unannounced at local breweries. They arrive at places such as Bayou Teche Brewing in Arnaudville and Abita Brewing Co. in Abita Springs, looking to be shown around, maybe get a free sample, says Berthelot,

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Non-sensical mascots make the season bright

Published in Asheville Attractions on September 22, 2013

Chances are you’ve never heard of Mr. Moon.

Which is a shame, because Mr. Moon is a golden god – in the realm of sports mascots, anyway, which is a group as eclectic as the contestants in a Miss America pageant. The difference is that, being a generally higher-I.Q. bunch, the mascots would likely be able to cobble together more coherent proposals for world peace.

The Asheville Tourists, a single-A  baseball team in North Carolina, are lucky enough to call Mr. Moon their own. His head looks more or less the way you would expect it to – it’s a giant moon, of course – with a vaguely creepy, sexual predator-type smile, and a blue cap cocked jauntily askew somewhere atop the Sea of Tranquility.

That a team called the Tourists boasts a giant moon-headed freak for a mascot doesn’t make a whole lot of sense; the moon has never been a tourist, and if it ever becomes one, then humanity’s days are probably numbered. In that event, you can be assured of three things: families will embrace each other sorrowfully on their front lawns as they gather to watch the collision; kooky religious groups will drink lots of Kool-Aid while wearing funny

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