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Tractor Supply Co. opening store in JeffersonJames HowellStaff Writerjhowell@jeffersonpost.com

Construction is underway to transform the old Lowes building at 630 South Main St. in Jefferson into a Tractor Supply Co.

“I’m delighted with any type of business we can get; es-pecially a well-known business like Tractor Supply Co.,” said Jefferson Alderman Charles Caudill. He also said the county should benefit from its sales tax revenue and em-ployment of local workers.

According to a press release from Tractor Supply Co., the Jefferson Tractor Supply Co. will employ 12 to 17 full- and part-time team members.

Operating in N.C. since 1994, Tractor Supply Co. is the largest retail farm and ranch supply store in the United States, reads a press release from the company. This new location will be the company’s 54th location in North Caro-lina. It has 1,130 stores in 45 states.

Along with selling farm equipment, Tractor Supply Co. sells pet food brands like Purina and Nutrena, as well as work clothing and light truck equipment.

“Tractor Supply looks forward to being a member of the Jefferson community,” said District Manager Mike Brown in the press release. “Jefferson is a great fit due to the part-time and hobby farmers, and horse owners in the area.”

James Howell l Jefferson PostThe old Lowes Foods building, more recently used by Dr Pepper for storage, is being renovated for a new Tractor Supply Co. store.

James Howell l Jefferson PostAshe County Health Department in Jefferson is providing free vaccinations for whooping cough until Oct. 1.

Recent increase in whooping cough reported in regionJames HowellStaff Writerjhowell@jeffersonpost.com

An outbreak of whooping cough has spread to the high country recently, which public health officials say is partly due to a weak vaccine administered in the late 1990s.

“We’re finding that the vaccines given years ago weren’t strong enough,” said Wilkes County Health Department spokesman Pam Muncus in a press release.

Candi Gambill, public health nurse: lead in communicable dis-ease, said, “It’s fair to say there have been noticeable increases in whooping cough cases through-out the Appalachian region, in-

cluding in Ashe County.”Until recently, there haven’t

been any cases of whooping cough in Ashe County.

Gambill said, “There have been several cases that meet the defi-nition of whooping cough in the area. We have been investigating cases as the doctors report them to us. Everybody is encouraged to get a Tdap vaccination if they haven’t already received one.”

Also, the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) revised its recommendation on the Tdap vaccine and now urges all adults to get a single dose from their health care provider.

According to Gambill, whoop-ing cough vaccinations are free until Oct. 1. This is because

North Carolina has been provid-ing vaccines to help weed out whooping cough from the popula-tion. After Oct. 1, the vaccine will still be available, but will only be free for some.

Whooping cough has been no-ticed in surrounding counties as well.

Anne Absher, health director of the Wilkes County Health De-partment, said there have been 22 confirmed cases of whooping cough in Wilkes County.

Absher also said there have been cases of whooping cough in Wilkes County’s school system. This prompted the school system to seek out the Wilkes County

Tree stump tells the history of the countyJames HowellStaff Writerjhowell@jeffersonpost.com

A project to preserve lo-cal history has been under-taken by historians Pete Benda and Bill Sharp, who plan to use a tree stump to catalog some of the histori-cal events of the area.

This stump is from the 265-year-old tree that once spread its branches over the Ashe County Arts Center in West Jefferson.

“There’s a lot more to the history of Ashe County than the cheese factory, the frescoes, and the New River,” said Sharp. “There is a lot of history here for people interested in the high country.”

For example, the tree stump can show remnants of the floods in 1940 and the snowfall in 1960 that paralyzed Ashe County, said Sharp.

Sharp went on to say this tree stump could be used as an educational tool that could teach how tree-ring dating works and give perspective to historical events.

Benda said the tree died in 2007, when it was chopped down after being struck by lightning.

The project began when Benda, a retired IBM em-ployee and artist, noticed the stump while entering the arts center. Afterwards, he contacted Sharp, a

James Howell l Jefferson PostBill Sharp, left, and Pete Benda are recording some local history through study of the tree rings of the former Ashe County Arts Center tree.

DAV seeks fundraising help for new vanIn 2005, Ashe County

Disabled American Veter-ans, Chapter 80, acquired a min-van to transport veter-ans to the various VA Medi-cal Centers in this region.

Help is needed to replace this van with a newer mod-el.

Many of the local veter-ans depend on the VA for their medical needs and their only means of trans-portation is on the Ashe County DAV van. Unfortu-nately, the van is near the end of its useful life and needs to be replaced if DAV is to continue providing this service.

DAV hopes to replace the present van with a 2013

seven-passenger Ford Ex-plorer 4x2 FWD. This ve-hicle will cost $24,384. The local chapter needs to raise $13,500 of that cost with the balance paid through government funding.

Your help is needed in this fundraising effort. Any donation you can make to help in acquiring the new van would be greatly appre-ciated, especially by local veterans.

Please send donations directly to Disabled Ameri-can Veterans, Ashe County Chapter 80, 446 Ashe Park Road, Jefferson, NC 28640.

For more information, call Ralph Poe, command-er, DAV Chapter 80, at 336-

Linda Burchette l Jefferson PostAshe County Chapter 80 Disabled American Veterans is seek-ing financial assistance to purchase a new van to transport vet-erans to medical appointments.

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Health Dept., which ad-ministered vaccinations to students and faculty at Wilkes County ’s four high schools. After-ward, the health dept. opened vaccinations to the public.

Counting the vaccina-tions given at the health department and those given at the free clinics at Wilkes’ high schools, “There have been around 1,600 whooping cough vaccinations adminis-tered to the public in Wil-kes County,” said Absher.

Ashe County’s school system has also taken precautions against whooping cough.

Superintendent Travis Reeves said the school system has uploaded in-formation about whoop-ing cough onto its web-site to notify parents and

students. He also said they have stayed in con-tact with Gambill, so the school nurses and em-ployees are aware of the symptoms of whooping cough.

“The most important thing is that everyone knows the health depart-

ment is giving free vac-cinations, and that every-one should seek medical attention if they have symptoms of whooping cough,” said Gambill.

The main symptom of whooping cough is severe coughing within one or two weeks after

contracting the illness. Children with whoop-ing cough often have coughing fits, especially at night, with a high-pitch “whoop” sound. The “whoop” indicates a struggle to breathe. Whooping cough can last up to a month.

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church historian, to help with the task of preserving the tree stump.

To preserve the stump, Benda and Sharp placed gravel around it and made a barrier around the grav-el. Benda said this should keep moisture from rot-ting the base, which would eventually wither the stump away.

Benda said, “We ought

to preserve the tree stump and the stories it could tell if it could talk.”

“It’s quite accurate (tree-ring dating); the prob-lem is finding the rings when they are bunched together,” said Benda. To pinpoint the rings, Benda resorted to using a magni-fying glass.

According to Benda, tree-ring dating is accu-rate enough to know the years that had temperate

climates versus extreme climates. Benda said wide spaces between rings iden-tifies seasons that the tree grew the most, signifying a good climate.

To mark different pe-riods of time, Benda and Sharp placed colored thumb tacks in the tree stump.

A thumb tack was placed in the center of the tree stump, marking its birth around 1747. Marked in

the tree trunk was the be-ginning of every decade after the tree’s birth.

One curious detail of the tree stump is that until the early 1900s, the rings were closer together. Ben-da said this was due to the deforestation of West Jef-ferson. He said trees that grow in a forested area get less sunlight because of the thick forest skyline.

When the town began cutting down surround-

ing greenery to make room for the train, this tree was able to draw more sunlight, making it grow faster. In this way, the stump documents the industrialization of West Jefferson, said Benda.

Between 1930 and 1940, there was a large gash in the trunk of the tree. Benda noted that the arts center was construct-ed in 1938, and said the tree’s trunk was probably

damaged during construc-tion.

Benda and Sharp both said until the tree’s death in 2007, the tree had lived through the founding of the United States and the founding of Ashe County, the industrial age and the Civil War, all important historical events.

Even though the tree is no longer here, it managed to leave behind a piece of history.

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“Curry” is an adorable 12-week-old male kitten. Curry is a snuggle-bug and loves to drift off to sleep in someone’s arms. He also loves to nap with the foster’s old beagle! Curry and his three sib-lings were abandoned be-side the dumpsters when they were just four to five weeks old. Luckily, our lactating mama kitty took to the four orphans and nursed them. Curry would love to come home with you! He is excellent with other cats, dogs (of course) and children. A vet reference and/or home visit is required for adop-tion.

“Belle” is an adorable eight-week-old kitten. She’s tiny and fuzzy! The mother cat is rather small, so Belle will likely also re-main a smaller kitty. Belle is eating hard kitten chow and using the litter box like a champ! She’s great with children, other cats and dogs. She’s ready for a loving home. A vet ref-erence and/or home visit is required for adoption.

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Students invited to attend ‘Fifth Quarter’James HowellStaff Writerjhowell@jeffersonpost.com

A new church sponsored student event called Fifth Quarter will give students a safe place to have fun after every home foot-ball game for the rest of the season.

“I think it’s going to be wonderful,” said

Trish Church, the ministry assistant of the Ashe Baptist Association. “We’re trying to set up a safe environment for kids to come together and socialize.”

Fifth Quarter will begin after every high school home football game and end some-time around midnight. Meetings are being held at Faith Fellowship Baptist Church in Jefferson.

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Disaster drill takes place in CrumplerLinda BurchetteAssistant Editorlburchette@jeffersonpost.com

Motorists passing by the old cattle market in Crum-pler early Thursday eve-ning, Aug. 30, might have thought there was some ter-rible disaster taking place there.

Fire department mem-bers were directing traffic at several sites along NC 16N, there were rescue squad vehicles at Brinegar’s service station, and what looked like organized chaos at the old market. It was all designed to simulate a disaster of unknown mag-nitude.

Tim Miller with Blue Ridge Emergency Prepared-ness Group in Caldwell, an organization that organizes such response scenarios, said this particular event involved spilled acid and a lightning strike on the building that not too long ago housed Isabel’s restau-rant.

The scenario was that a yard sale was taking place at the site, and a truck hauling a trailer with bar-rels of a type of acid used in food products pulled off to see what was going on. Lightning struck the build-ing, “injuring” about 11 on scene and startling the truck driver so he hit his gas pedal too quickly caus-ing the barrels to burst out

of the trailer and spill on the ground.

Response came from numerous area fire depart-ments and rescue agen-cies. A hazardous materi-als team checked out the barrels, “bystanders” were decontaminated, and the “victims” were treated and transported to medical fa-cilities.

As part of the situation, a tour bus with about 24 trav-elers was left damaged by the lightning strike and the travelers needed shelter. The Department of Social Services set up a temporary shelter at Mountain View Elementary School with cots, medical help and food for the stranded travelers.

Volunteers serving as “victims” and “bystanders” included students of Ashe County High School Health Occupations, taught by Phyllis Ashley.

Agencies involved in the event included: fire depart-ments from New River, Warrensville, Jefferson, Lansing, Fleetwood, West Jefferson, Ashe County Rescue Squad, Blue Ridge Medical Transport, Helton Ambulance, Ashe Memo-rial Hospital, Ashe County E-911 Communications, Ashe County Emergency Management, Ashe Coun-ty Department of Social Services, Mountain View Elementary School, Ashe

County Transportation Au-thority (transported evacu-ees from scene to shelter)

New River VFRD mem-ber Eddie Lyons served as Incident Commander.

“This exercise was de-signed to test our Emer-gency Operations Plan and Special Needs Sheltering Plan and evaluate our op-erational effectiveness in initial emergency response, incident management, evac-uation, sheltering and mass care,” said Patty Gambill, director of Ashe County Emergency Management. “The emphasis was on the role of the local first re-sponders in response to a hazardous materials event.”

“The main objective of any exercise is to learn,” Gambill said. “A plan that sets on a shelf is useless. In order to know if the plan is going to work correctly you have to put it into ac-tion. The time to do that is before an event happens,

not when an event hap-pens. This allows individu-als to identify areas of the plan that may not work as intended or that may need to be adjusted to function more efficiently.”

“Usually within a week or two of the exercise, we hold a critique where every-one talks about what went smoothly and what areas of the response that we may need to work harder on or change,” said Gambill. “All of the individuals and agen-cies that participated did an excellent job. This was one of the smoothest exercises we’ve ever had in terms of how the operations flowed. I think this is partially be-cause we held two tabletop exercises prior to the full scale exercise that allowed participating agencies to think about and discuss methods of handling the issues presented by the sce-nario.”

“There was also a good

turnout and we really ap-preciate everyone’s par-ticipation in the exercise, particularly the emergency services volunteers who spend a large portion of their time training for events like this and the

student ‘victims’ from the Health Occupations class who volunteered their time. There are also many people who work behind the scenes to help hold an event like this that deserve a big thank you.”

Linda Burchette l Jefferson PostRescue medical personnel help “victims” of the disaster drill in Crumpler

Linda Burchette l Jefferson Post“Victims” in the disaster drill were played by high school oc-cupational health students.

Linda Burchette l Jefferson PostFirefighters had to decontaminate “bystanders” at the drill who might have been exposed to toxic substances.

ACHS welcomes new band directorJames HowellStaff Writerjhowell@jeffersonpost.com

Ashe County’s new band director Carrie Mitchell hopes to push her students to new heights and build the program for years to come.

“My goal is to build their confidence and to build this pro-gram,” said Mitchell.

Mitchell is from Lexington and grew up taking private harp lessons. She played in the marching band in middle school and high school. While there, she was instructed by a former student of Scott Turnmyre (retired ACHS band direc-tor), so Mitchell says she is from the same school of thought as Turnmyre.

Mitchell earned a degree in music education from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. While attending UNCG, she learned the skills necessary to direct a marching band, and met her husband. They now live in Butler, Tenn.

The band’s first performance was at Watauga last Friday. Watauga High School graciously allowed Ashe County High School’s marching band to perform during their half time show. Mitchell said her students played very well and she was proud of them.

Mitchell will make her official debut in front of the Ashe County community at tonight’s home football game against North Surry.

Mitchell also praised the drive and focus of her students, saying, “They are really humble, they go with the flow, they work hard, and they are growing fast.”

Mitchell believes she is pushing them to a potential they haven’t been pushed to yet. This is made evident when her students happily accept the challenge of more complex songs, rather than the simpler songs they played before she arrived.

When asked what songs the band will perform this year, Mitchell said their music will be inspired by award-winning movie composer Danny Elfman.

The band will play several of Elfman’s works, including his theme from Sam Raimi’s Spiderman movies.

The band will also play several of Elfman’s collaborations with Tim Burton, which include scores from Batman, Bat-man Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands.

Always encouraging more practice, Mitchell says the band will be hosting a competition at noon on Saturday, Oct. 13, in the football stadium. Several marching bands from surround-ing counties will participate, capped off by Ashe County’s marching band.

When asked how she likes the job, Mitchell said, “I am loving it. It’s a dream so far, and I don’t think that’s going to change.” Mitchell also said she would like to thank the com-munity for the opportunity to direct Ashe County’s marching band.

Photo submittedCarrie Mitchell is the new band director at ACHS.

ACHS CTE student of the month

Photo submittedRick Woodie with Parker Tie, left, presents a gift to Jacob Weaver, Ashe County High School CTE Student of the Month for August. Appreciation is extended to Parker Tie and Dewalt for sponsoring this program. Walter Pugh, construc-tion teacher at ACHS, said, “Jacob has been more than the ideal student. In order to achieve the highest grades and my deepest respect, he has demonstrated outstanding leadership and maintained a clear sense of purpose. The cur-riculum in Construction 1-3 classes is most challenging, and Jacob fulfilled all the requirements with the added chal-lenge of the rigorous curriculum such as design software on the computer. Jacob was an outstanding extemporaneous speaker in the interview process that we do in class. Due to its nature of the state test and testing within the class, this has made Jacob a successful high school student. He has served by not only representing his school but also by representing his community as well. He developed a strong sense of confidence with a good attitude.”

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