Category Archives: Asheville Attractions

CIVIC GROUPS

ABINGDON CIVITAN: Abingdon, Va., Harbor House, first and third Monday, 6 p.m. New members welcome. Roger Edwards, 276-676-2192.

ABINGDON KIWANIS: Abingdon, Va., White’s Mill Road, Greenway Haven Party House, Tuesdays, at noon. No meeting on fifth Tuesday of month. Visitors welcome. Ben Hamby, 276-356-2123.

ABINGDON LIONS: Abingdon, Va., White’s Mill Road, Greenway Haven Party House, first and third Thursday, 7 p.m. Visitors welcome. John Blankenship, 276-628-5954.

ABINGDON ROTARY: Abingdon, Va., White’s Mill Road, Greenway Haven Party House, Fridays, 12:15 p.m. Danny Johnson, 276-466-7807.

BRISTOL EVENING LIONS: Bristol Va. Exit 7, Golden Corral, second and fourth Thursday, 6 p.m. Membership open to men and women, Charles Coulthard, 276-466-5357. Joe Wall, 423-764-8545.

BRISTOL HOST LIONS: Bristol, Va., Exit 5, Euclid Avenue Food City, Fridays, noon. New members welcome. Greg Androney, president. 423-646-2923.

BRISTOL MORNING ROTARY: Bristol, Va., Euclid Ave., Food City, meeting every Tuesday, 7:30 a.m., Club President: John Tulloch, 423-574-1181.

BUFFALO RURITAN: Bluff City, Tenn., Beaver Creek Road and Buffalo Road, Ruritan building, fourth Monday, dinner at 6:30 p.m., meeting follows. Visitors welcome. 423-538-9220.

GLADE SPRING CIVIC CLUB: Glade Spring, Va., old Glade School on the hill,

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CAIRO â?? The suicide bombing of a tourist bus in the Sinai Peninsula indicates that a growing Islamist insurgency is spreading to “soft” targets and may do more damage to Egypt’s already struggling tourism industry.

The bomber boarded the bus as it stopped at an Egypt-Israel border crossing and an explosion immediately followed, killing three South Korean tourists and the Egyptian driver, the Interior Ministry said.

“It’s a very bad blow to any efforts to re-attract tourists again,” said Mazen Hassan, an assistant professor at Cairo University. “This will definitely affect â?? at least in the short term â?? the flow of tourists back to the country.”

Over the past three years, many would-be tourists have stayed away from ongoing political unrest that began with the uprising against dictator Hosni Mubarak and since led to killings in Egypt’s streets, ongoing protests and bomb blasts that as recently as last month hit the capital.

The tourism industry’s decline led to a drop in foreign currency reserves and loss of jobs, while overall unrest led to investments plummeting.

Sunday’s attack “adds to the problems that the Egyptian economy is facing in general, not just the tourism sector,” Hassan said.

And it comes amid government attempts to restore political

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Witnessing a wildlife spectacle just over Smokies

Published 6:19pm Sunday, February 16, 2014

The snow was still on the ground in the Smokies as we drove west on our four-hour journey over to the Chattanooga area; definitely a chilly start to our upcoming birding trip.

The four of us met in Asheville that morning bound for the wildlife spectacle along the Hiwassee River in southwestern Tennessee.

Many of the local lakes were still frozen so the largest concentration of Sandhill Cranes in the Southeastern US (outside Florida) was not in the wildlife refuge, but along the shores off the Hiwassee River. The cranes, along with thousands of ducks, were standing around on the sand bars or feeding along the semi-frozen shoreline. Hundreds also were feeding in the nearby fields among the cattle- a quite amazing sight really. Not quite the African savanna, but almost.

Small flocks of American Pipits also fed in the fields and large flocks of Red-winged Blackbirds wheeled and landed amongst the unconcerned livestock.

A new visitor center had been built down on the end of Blyth’s Ferry Road honoring the Cherokee removal along the Trail of Tears, which was a peaceful site to spend a little time before heading to the

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Remember when you could get a parking spot anywhere in Asheville in the dead of winter? You never had to pay for parking. Ever. Those days are long gone and paying to park has become commonplace. Most of us shrug, grumble, and pull out our wallets, watching our dollars and cents fly out the window. Now, imagine a parking lot that led you to a land full

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By Leslee Kulba-Mike Adams came before Asheville City Council to request funding for Moogfest. The presentation was a sharp contrast to what the Buncombe County Commissioners saw last week. Adams told the members of council he was “not comfortable” coming before them asking for money. His business is sound and he is capable of running it at a profit.

Had he wanted to continue the music festival, he never would have asked for public assistance, either. But what he proposed was an economic development event. At the request of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, Moogfest had been moved to April, and it will run from Wednesday through Sunday. To attract daytime visitors, the festival has been transformed from an entertainment weekend to an opportunity for career musicians and techies to network and learn.

As in the past, a host of innovators melding music and electronics will perform, and cosmologists, technicians, and artists will give presentations. Added to the mix will be film screenings, an open-source hackathon, talks by “some of the most important thinkers of today,” and an “opportunity to build, modify, and take home your unreleased Moog synthesizer.”

As planned, the event

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