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Golden Valley NC Fall Color Tour November, 2010

Sunshine, Golden Valley, Duncan's Creek, and Logan's Store are NC Townships

In the East end of Rutherford County, not far from the South Mountains, between Shelby and Marion, NC, you'll find a rural, scenic, historic area with mountains not too high, but high enough to catch some big view-sheds. And it's in the foothills of the Appalachians, so you know it's beautiful. And there is no more beautiful season in the foothills and mountains of Western North Carolina than Autumn. Poets have written much about colored fall foliage, and whoever knows, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood," knows fall was the season Frost was thinking about when he wrote that poem. You may read the poem out loud or to yourself here: The Road Not Taken .

Our Photobucket photo tour begins with Yellowtop, not because it's about Yellowtop, but because I was thinking about Frost's poem and yellow trees and it was too delicious not to take advantage of. Here's a little known fact: It's the multiple poplar trees that give Yellowtop it's crowning glory and you'll find some seriously yellow trees in the second picture. I suggest you view the album as a slideshow.

The inspiration for the Fall Color Tour was my neighbor, Sheila Gipson. Sheila bought a new camera. She was anxious to take it out for a trial run and I was anxious to get out, period. It was a beautiful Saturday, the leaves weren't going to get a bit prettier, and it seemed like our last chance, our last shot before the rains came in Tuesday, November 17th, and the leaves went "brown and down". Out we went at 10:30 AM and we shot the sunset before our return home at 6:30 PM. I've only put some of our pictures online.

Feel free to enjoy them but please do not steal them and claim them as your own. If there's one you must have ask for permission, I don't think you'll find us unreasonable.

You may learn more about our area and Golden Valley at our website: GoldenValleyNC.com.

Golden Valley NC High Speed Internet Access

   There are several Internet providers operating in the Golden Valley - Logan's Store - Duncan's Creek - Sunshine areas.

   If you are researching Internet for the first time, there are a few things you need to know. There are several ways Internet access can be provided and no doubt you've heard of them.

• Dial Up via Netzero, Juno ...
• Cable via Comcast, Time Warner, Charter Cable ...
• DSL via AT&T
• Wireless via Verizon, Altel, Windstream ...
• Wireless via local providers, Skycatcher and Skyrunner ...
• Satellite via Hughes and Wildblue ...
• Satellite via your TV digital provider: Dish and Directv

   For more see: http://www.high-speed-internet-access-guide.com/  Links to providers are here.

   Local providers, are working on solutions to make high speed Internet access available and affordable in our area. Please call Karen: 828 245-9003 to get on the list of people who want high speed Internet access.

New technology is evolving: see High Speed Internet via Electric Lines .

Local Outreach Groups Attend Golden Valley Community Club Meeting

Mary Sue Price speaks at Community Meeting

   As many of Golden Valley's residents hunker down for winter, it's time for a little good news. Sophia Sneed from the Washburn Community Outreach and Mary Sue Price from the Golden Valley, Sunshine, Duncan's Creek Outreach also known as the GVSDC Community Project visited our club on September 20th to let us in on the latest.

   Both groups operate in a hyper-local area, which means, in our little corner of Rutherford County. With funds raised from church donations, grants, and community organizations, both groups help local folks with things like medicine, they might pay an electric bill, might help with a late payment. But the Washburn Community Outreach, which occupies the former Washburn Community Clubhouse, also maintains a food pantry, and sells donated items: clothes, toys, dishes, furniture and whatever they end up with.

   They don't turn anything down. Always finding a use for donated items. The oddest thing that's ever been given, to date, according to Sneed is a very risque nightie, hmmmm. They also might mention the time they got three bread machines in a week... and the time they received four of those wicker/rattan peacock chairs. They never know what they're going to receive, but are grateful for everything.

   Sometimes you might find a real treasure. A local man - who shall remain nameless - picked up an autographed leather bound book at the store for $1.00. When he went online to research it, he found it was written by a German General, in WWII and sells on Amazon for $300.00. So, you might want to stop in and see what they have, and remember the money you spend supports the project and the people.

   The Outreach at Washburn is participating in the Back Pack program and are currently supplying 40 children in Ellenboro Elementary. They're in the process of starting the program at East Rutherford Middle School, too. For those of you who may not know, the Back Pack Program provides children with enough food to get through the weekend when they can't depend on the school's hot lunch program. Sophia confides, "We send extra when there are other children in the home."

   The Golden Valley, Sunshine, Duncan's Creek Mission Outreach is a huge help to some of our neighbors. Monthly meetings are open to the public. Mary Sue has been a member since it's inception. She said, "The Project's purpose is to act as a good neighbor; eemergency funds are used when they're needed."

   If you or someone you know needs help, the GVSDC Project may be reached through any of the four supporting area churches: First Broad, Golden Valley Mission Methodist, Duncan's Creek Presbyterian and Mount Pleasant. You may contact Washburn Community Outreach at the Thrift Store, 828-245-5603. Checks and cash are never given, rather a bill is paid, groceries are supplied, clothing is given.

   Don't hesitate to send a check to either group.
   And if you've got a little extra time they always need volunteers.

2010 Ice Cream Social

Monday, September 20 at 7:00 PM

Golden Valley Community Club



You are invited to attend the annual Ice Cream Social at the community club. Guest speakers will be Mary Sue Price from the Golden Valley, Sunshine, Duncan's Creek Outreach, and Sophia Sneed from the Washburn Community Outreach. These local charitable organizations do a lot for our community. Find out what they do and how you can help.



Newsletter

Welcome Jay Ferris!

Golden Valley Community Club with guest speaker, local Author Jay Ferris August 16th, 2010.

In the early 90's, when Jay Ferris walked property with brothers and area surveyors Tom and Frank Melton, they had some rollicking good times and made more than a few memories. Everyone understood where the lines were. Marks were made and calls written down. This is how surveys have traditionally been done in rural Western Carolina.

But not anymore.

Today's sharp attorneys, hired by title companies with almost limitless funds, can render a traditional survey null in a court room without much ado. Jay explained that we need to be aware of how surveys have been done locally in the past, and further should protect our land and rights by hiring a licenced surveyor to take new measurements using modern equipment and to file (record) a plat at the courthouse. Most of us do not have a recorded survey on file. This can cause some serious problems when property is bought and sold. It may even be a problem when adjacent property is transferred. The solution? Get a current survey by a NC licensed surveyor BEFORE you sign a deed.

Land plats are available, for a small fee, in the mapping department at the Rutherford County Courthouse. More mapping information is available at the Rutherford County site online.

The Invisible People

http://www.youtube.com/user/invisiblepeopletv The growing crisis of homelessness in America has prompted YouTube contributor Mark Horvath, who was homeless himself in LA fifteen years ago, to actually do something about homelessness.

Today, You Tube joins that fight, promoting the Invisible People site.

Think homeless people are homeless by choice? Because they overspent? The average age of a homeless person, according to Horvath, is nine years old.

With more than one million American families facing foreclosure, this crisis is slated to get worse, not better and it's going to get worse fast.

What can you do?

Stop looking the other way. Look at these people, listen to their stories. You can help, Rutherford Housing, the Washburn Community Outreach, and others are working - you can help.