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May 2018 Volume MMXVIII, Issue 05
While it seemed that winter would
never end, we have it on good au-
thority that spring has come. Join
us for our first Sunset on the Ter-
race at the clubhouse on Tuesday,
May 8 at 6:00 pm. RSVP by May 5
to Anne [email protected].
(see Page 5 for details.)
HOA 2019 Board Nominating Committee
by Bob Vigeland
The RCGC HOA Board Meeting is Tuesday, May 22, at 1:00 pm at the Club. All HOA members are invited. See www.reemscreekhoa.com for meeting minutes, reports, financials and important information/guide-lines for living in our community. Remember: All residents living here (including all non-HOA members) are subject to RCGC Covenants & Restrictions. There are no excep-tions. With the arrival of Spring now is a good time to freshen up our yards and home exteriors. The Town of Weaverville picks up small bundled limbs and branches, cut to 4 feet length, and will fit into the shredder. Use clear bags for leaves and yard debris and place at curb. Please remember to keep all trash, branches and debris at least 12 inches from the pavement out of passing vehicles and walkers’ path. The Board has received numerous calls about the need for attention to SAFETY ON OUR STREETS. • Too much speeding down hills • Cars running stop signs • Observed driving in middle of road Please tell your Contrac-tors to drive safely and observe safe speeds.
RCGC Board Meeting
Every year, we need to identify some members of our community who are willing to take the places of current Board members who have completed their terms of ser-vice. This year we have an unusual-ly large number of upcoming va-cancies. At year-end, we will lose our President, Secretary, Treasur-er, and a member at large. We will also look for a Co-Editor for our monthly newsletter, The Slice. Here’s your chance at a rewarding opportunity to give back to the community we all love. Board ser-vice typically only requires a few hours each month. If you are inter-ested in serving on the Board or would like to learn more about Board service, please give me a call at 817-637-3196 or email at [email protected].
The RCGC Strategic Planning Com-mittee will reconvene this summer to address community issues and other ongoing agenda items im-portant to Reems Creek Golf Com-munity residents. Many thanks to past members, and welcome back! This is your opportunity to be in-volved and learn more about our community and the Reems Creek Valley neighborhoods. We invite you to join us for a short kick off ori-entation meeting this summer. A Community Survey is planned so your voice is important in providing input for this survey. Contact [email protected] if you would like to be invited to this event and/or would like additional information.
Safety on Our Streets is a priority . How can the Town of Weaverville work with us to solve the current problems of speeding, drivers run-ning stop signs and driving in the middle of the roadway. One solution to explore is to lower the speed lim-it. Your ideas are welcome. So, until then…. Follow these SAFETY GUIDE-LINE requests: Use caution when driving by staying on your side of the road, yield to pedestrians and drive within the speed limit at all times. Walkers, please walk against traffic and wear white clothing or reflective tape on shoes and clothes. If walk-ing at dusk or after dark carry a flash light so you can be seen by drivers.
Strategic Planning Committee by Rick Tipton
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Weaverville Happenings by Cindy Wright
T.G.I.F! Join us the last Friday of every month for our TGIF 4-person cap-tain's choice golf outing. For just $25 a player, you get 9 holes of golf with a cart, burger/hot dog, fries and chances to win prizes! Not a golfer? No problem! Join us for dinner! May 25 at 5pm! Prime Rib Dinner at Reems! For just $21.99 a person. Start with cocktails at 5:30 pm. Prime rib, baked potatoes, vegetable medley, salad, dinner rolls with a beer or glass of wine at 6pm.
Don’t Forget Reems Creek Wednes-day Business League! Come out and golf Wednesdays at 5:30 for our two-person captain's choice business league! For just $23 a person, you receive 9 holes with a cart, hot dog and drink! P.S. Please refrain from putting per-sonal garbage/recyclables in the Reems Creek dumpsters! If caught, you may be subject to a fine. Thank you for your cooperation!
Library – Call 828-250-6482 for more information on the events. • Read with Olivia the Therapy Dog – Tuesday May 8 from 4 to 5:30 p.m.;
Saturday, May 19 from 10:30 to noon; Tuesday, May 22 from 4 to 5:30 p.m • The American Black Bear with Smoky Mountains Histori-
an Wilma Durpo – Tuesday, May 22 from 7 to 8 p.m. – Unlike us, the black bear is a native of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Learn about the myths about their spirit and the research to help humans and bears coexist more comfortably.
• Herpetology for Eco Explorers - Wednesday, May 23 from 4 to 5 p.m. – Join NC Arboretum staff in meeting some of our local reptiles and amphibians and learn how your observations of wildlife can earn you cool prizes.
• Weaverville Library Used Book Sale – Saturday, May 26 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. – Check out the great bargains on fiction, non-fiction, kids books, DVDs and more. We got rid of last year’s stuff and this first sale of 2018 has all new stuff, individually priced and sorted into categories.
Memorial Day Celebration – Monday, May 28, at 12:00 – The celebration will include singers Mandy Williams and Janet Cress. Bagpipe music by How-ard Dusenbery. Joe Root is the speaker, with a demonstration by the North Buncombe ROTC. The Weaverville Police Depart-ment will present the rifle salute. North Buncombe High School • Fundraiser Golf Tournament – Saturday, May 5,
10:00 a.m. Shot gun start – NBHS’s fundraiser golf tournament for the golf and cheer teams. The tournament is at Wolf Laurel Country Club, Mars Hill. It is a four-player, captains choice. Cost is $90 pp that includes lunch and prizes. Sign up and for more information, contact [email protected].
• Jazz Concert, May 10, 6:30PM, free; works by Frank Sinatra, Duke Elling-ton, and New Orleans Two Step Groove
• Chorus Concert, May 24, 7:00 PM, Cost is $3.00 per person with all those 12 and under free! This concert will feature three choirs singing a variety of music from the classical, folk, bluegrass, and Broadway genres.
• Band Concert, May 31, free; English Tone Poem, Latin Fantasy piece, tradi-tional marches and more.
Zebulon Vance Birthplace – Tuesday thru Saturdays, all of May – Free guid-ed tours of the main house are offered. The first tour is at 9:30 a.m. and the last tour is at 4:30 p.m. Call 828-645-6706.
From the Clubhouse by Eric Daggett, Asst General Manager
RCGC SPRING PLANT EXCHANGE: If you have plants to share are need some to add to your landscape, contact [email protected]. Plants available now include varieties of iris, daylilies, ground-covers, oregano, mints—all cold and winter hardy plants.
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Weaverville Town Council News by Bob Vigeland
Weaverville Town Council met on April 16 for its regular monthly meeting. Attendance was somewhat sparse, probably due to the snow falling outside. The agenda included a wide variety of issues. I always seem to learn something new about Weaverville at these meetings The first agenda item was water system development fees (SDFs), something I knew nothing about. SDFs are one-time fees charged to the owners of newly constructed homes or business properties when they are added to the town’s water system. According to recently passed state legislation (HB 436), municipalities may only charge SDFs if certain steps are followed at least every five years. The first required step is a professional review that will determine the max-imum permissible fee. That review has been completed and was reported to the Council at the April meeting. Weaver-ville is currently charging developers $600 for each new residential consumer, among the lowest SDFs in the state. According to the professional review, it could charge considerably more, up to a maximum of $2,480. The public will have ample opportunity to comment on these SDFs as HB 436 requires a review period and a public hearing before the Council may take any action. However, with the likely need to expand the town’s water treatment facility in the fore-seeable future, I think it is likely that Weaverville’s SDFs will be raised in connection with the fiscal 2018 budget. The developers of proposed Weaverville Townhome development (proposed for the area behind Wal-Mart) have filed a Conditional Zoning District application to limit their obligation to install sidewalks that would otherwise be required for a new multi-family development. This was the initial consideration of the application by the Council and it will be referred next to the Planning and Zoning Board for their recommendation. The Council seemed willing to be somewhat flexible on the issue of sidewalks but felt it would be important for this development to provide safe pedestrian access to the nearby shopping areas. The Council also approved an application to increase the previously approved water allo-cation amount for 50 homes to the final plan for 53 homes. Other discussion and action items at the April meeting included: • Town Manager Selena Coffey presented a preliminary budget for 2018-19 calling for expenditures of $9,015,200, a
decrease of 1.5% from the current year. Budget deliberations are ongoing. • Justin Hembree, Executive Director of Land of Sky Regional Council, presented an update on the Council’s activities. • The Town Council approved the selection of Gould Killian CPA Group to perform the audit of the Town’s fiscal 2018
financial statements. The Town Council received quarterly reports from the from the Town’s finance and planning directors. Current year’s tax collections amount to 97.95% of the total tax levy. The Town issued 13 new zoning permits for residential construc-tion and one for a commercial structure, the Fairfield Inn Weaverville. As part of its effort to revise and update the Town’s Personnel Policy, the Town Council approved changes to the or-ganization of personnel systems, conditions of employment, records and reports, harassment and travel policies. Town Calendar for May:
• Planning and Zoning Board Meeting; May 1, 6:00 -8:00 P.M. Weaverville Fire Department Training Room, 3 Monticello Road • Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting; May 7, 7:00 - 8:00 P.M. Town Hall Council Chambers, 30 South Main Street • Town Council Workshop: FY 2019 Budget; May 8, 6:00 - 7:00 P.M. Town Hall Council Chambers, 30 South Main Street • Recreation Advisory Board Meeting; May 9 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Town Hall Council Chambers, 30 South Main Street • Town Council Meeting; May 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Town Hall Council Chambers, 30 South Main Street
Normal May Average High 75°F Normal May Average Low 53°F Normal May Precipitation 3.27 ”
Sunrise Sunset May 1 6:38 am 8:16 pm May 31 6:16 am 8:39 pm
Asheville in May
MASTER GARDENER PLANT SALE Saturday, May 12 from 10am to 2pm In partnership with the Asheville Blue Ridge Rose Society. At the American Red Cross parking lot, 100 Edgewood Road, just off Merrimon Ave. behind First Citizen's Bank.
The RCGC Adopt a Highway crew started their 26th year of trash control on Reems Creek Road with a bang. We collected 13 bags of trash on April 11. Call it an early Earth Day celebration. When you see them say thank you to
• Liz Doup, • Louise Watson, • Cindy Wright, • Ken Linker, • Rich Feeman, • David Rittenberg and • Don and Sylvia Venable.
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Music on Main is a free con-cert, open to the public that will be held on Main
Street in Downtown Weaverville in front of Town Hall on Saturday, June 23. There will be vendors, kids activi-ties and great music!
The opening act is Jesse Barry, a lo-cal soul & blues vocalist with a pow-erful voice and a great band. You can check her out on Facebook: www.facebook.com/jesse.barry1. The headliner is Kat Wright, a Ver-mont-based rock 'n' soul singer whose music is garnering national attention for its gritty groove; check her out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/KatWrightBand. This is going to be an awesome concert -- don't miss it.
Gates open at 4pm; music starts at 5. For information on parking, spon-sors, and more, www.visitweaverville.com/weaverville-
music-on-main/ .
A very warm Welcome to our new neighbors!!!
The Pritchard family has moved into 86 Hawtree Court. Hannah and Sam have 3 children, Joel 10, Ruthie 8, and Jude 3 months old. The Pritchard’s moved to the area about 2 ½ years ago, from Pennsyl-vania. They lived in Weaverville prior to moving to our community. Sam likes to Kayak, hike, and play
music. He works for Kaplan where he helps students prepare for testing. Hannah is a stay at home mom. She schools the children from home and likes to hike and would love to travel. Joel plays the clarinet, piano, flag football and likes sports. Ruthie likes to help cook, wants to learn violin, and does some gardening. Jude likes to sleep, eat and have a clean diaper. They are looking forward to joining the activities in our community. Email: [email protected]; Hannah’s phone is 215-758-7546
New Neighbors by Carolyn Otto
Adopt A Highway by JoAnne Rittenberg
Congratulations to Apple who grew up at 30 Valley Drive! She has graduated from training at the “Guide Dog Foun-dation for the Blind” and has been placed with
a blind Air Force veteran. If you’d like to know more about raising a “puppy with a purpose” contact Jim or Jayne at 356-5464.
Local Girl Makes Good! by Jim King
Viva FIESTA, Y’all! Join us on Tuesday, May 8 at 6 pm for our Fiesta Sunset on the Terrace. Fingers are crossed that the rain will be gone by, so we will have a spectacular sunset. With any luck, we will be into full blown spring and can celebrate Cinco de Mayo a few days late with our create-your-own-taco-night! Your $5 will get you 2 soft or crispy tacos you create with either chicken or beef, cheese, sour cream, lettuce and tomatoes plus chips, and salsa – of course! We will have homemade desserts and the club’s bar will be open. RSVP to Anne Campbell at [email protected] by May 5.
Calling all baseball fans! Even with wet weather, the 2018 baseball season is well under-way. The annual RCGC Ashe-ville Tourist baseball outing is scheduled for Friday, July 20 -- a night that will keep our tradition of “Dollar Hot-Dogs” and fire-works alive. The prices per tick-et have remained constant at $9.00 for seniors (65 & up), chil-
dren 12 & under, and military (active & retired). All others -- $11.00. This year we will be on the first base side of home plate in the Premium Box seats of Section J. Though July 20th seems a ways-off, don’t procrastinate as we have a lim-ited number of seats available and they will go on a first-come first-served basis. POC to reserve your seat and remit payment is Ken Linker, 658-1579 or [email protected]. ART and crafts sale– November 10. Calling all artists! We encourage our resident artists to participate in this event. It is not designed to be crafts only, and we would love to feature your talents. Registration for the Art and Crafts sale can be found on our website or by contacting Carolyn Otto or Anne Campbell.
Stitch & Bitch by Betsie Meyer
Our next meeting of Stitch and Bitch will be Thursday, May 17. Carolyn Otto who lives at 29 Hawtree Ct. will host our group from 10 until noon. Bring our own handwork and join us for fun and camaraderie. Please call Carolyn at 645-8524 to let her know you’re coming. Sharon Cirincione is planning a won-derful outing. Here is what she says about the event.
On Friday, June 15th, the S & B group travel to Hendersonville for lunch at West First, and then a 1:00 tour of The Oriole Mill, an amazing local working textile mill. The 72,000 sq. ft. mill is not your typical mill, but is more like a craft, design studio. From the beginning design to the high quality finished product the emphasis is always on quality not quantity.
During the 1-hour tour we will learn about and see in action, the fascinat-ing Jacquard loom and the high speed Dobby loom. The Oriole Mill is considered a new breed of mills and is quoted as the “Magical King-dom for Jacquard Junkies.” After the tour we will have time to browse and shop in the Oriole Mill Store where you can find distinctive, beautiful, high quality products. We will meet at 9:20 at the Club-house Parking lot to carpool. Please RSVP by Friday, June 1 to Sharon Cirincione 828-484-8446 or [email protected].
Thank you to Betty Smathers for hosting our April event.
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Social Committee by Anne Campbell
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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see more about that holiday at
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Loyalty Day
Law Day
6PM: Planning
and Zoning Board Meeting
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7PM: It’s
Bunco
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Nat’l Day of Prayer
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RSVP today for
Sunset on Terrace
on 5/8
Space Day
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Herb Day
Cinco de Mayo
7PM Bridge
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Nat’l Nurses Day
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7PM: Zoning Board of Adjust-ment Meeting
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6 PM Sunset
on Terrace
6PM: Town Council Work-
shop: FY19 Budget
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Lost Sock Memorial Day
5:30PM: Recrea-
tion Advisory Board Meeting
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NBHS Jazz
Concert 6:30 PM
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Limerick Day
MASTER
GARDENER PLANT SALE 10AM to 2PM
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Mother's Day
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Peace Officers Memorial Day
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10AM Stitch
N Bitch
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Armed Forces Day
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Talk Like Yoda Day
6PM: Town
Council Meeting
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1:00 HOA
Board
Meeting
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4PM Library:
Herpetology
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NBHS Chorus
Concert 7PM
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Nat’l Missing Children's Day
5PM TGIF
Golf
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Library: 10-3PM
Used Book Sale
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HamburgerDay
Memorial Day
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Macaroon Day
Garbage Collection
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National Doughnut Day
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6PM: Town Council Special Called
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6PM: Planning and Zoning Board
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D-Day
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Donald Duck Day
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Iced Tea Day
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Red Rose Day
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Sewing Machine Day
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Flag Day
Bourbon Day
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9:20AM
Stitch N
Bitch
road trip
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Father's Day
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7PM: Town Council
Meeting
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American Eagle Day
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June Solstice 22
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1:00 HOA Board
Meeting
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Helen Keller Day
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Meteor Watch Day
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