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🌱 Remember Old Fort’s 1985 parade float and the depot-saving slideshow?
Old Fort, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min readGreetings Old Fort! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Remember Old Fort’s 1985 parade float and the depot-saving slideshow?
Also on today's calendar: Honky Tonk Dance Hall and 4 more events.
Today's riddle: What Do u call a pig that knows karate? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Wednesday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 88 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Thursday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, temps: high: 88, low: 67.
- Friday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 89 and low of 67 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• From our Archives: Here's a look back at photos from McDowell County this week in 1985 (mcdowellnews.com) — Old Fort’s 1985 Independence Day parade, Heritage Foundation flag presentation, and Pee Wee baseball runners-up all resurface in this week’s deep dive into McDowell News archives. The piece also recalls a proposed Old Fort museum, a student project to save the depot, and other snapshots from Marion and Dysartsville that shaped local life four decades ago. 
📸 Around Old Fort
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Upcoming Events in
Old Fort
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★ Featured events ★
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FirstAnniversary//Sharik&Babbi//Chris Fraser →
Montreat College, 310 Gaither Cir, Montreat
7:00 pm
Wednesday July 8
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Other local events
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Honky Tonk Dance Hall →
Foothills Watershed, 655 Catawba River Rd, Old Fort
6:00 pm -
Cactus Rainbow Food Truck at Nebo →
Mica Town Brewing Company, 25 Brown Dr, Marion
3:00 pm -
The Flower Dinner →
Encompass Farm, 210 Ferguson Ridge Rd, Union Mills
4:00 pm -
Women's Circle →
Old Fort Yoga, 45 Catawba Ave, Old Fort
12:30 pm -
Hands-On History at the Mountain Gateway Museum →
Mountain Gateway Museum, 78 Catawba Ave, Old Fort
10:00 am -
Chicken Run movie night →
Pine Spring Farm, 48 Los Pinos Dr, Marion
10:00 am
Friday July 10
Saturday July 11
Sunday July 26
Monday July 27
Friday July 31
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Black Mountain Trivia Night →
Foothills Grange, 120 Broadway Ave, Black Mountain
7:00 pm -
Memoir Writing Class 1: How to Find Your Voice and Write Strong Characters →
Presbyterian Heritage Center, 318 Georgia Terrace, Montreat
9:00 am -
Baby Story Time
Black Mountain Library - 105 N. Dougherty St. - Black Mountain
10:30 am -
Public Hearing Notice for Proposed CDBG-DR Application (re: Repairs to Center for the Arts Building from Helene) →
Black Mountain, NC Calendar, Town Hall Council Chambers 160 Midland Ave., Black Mountain
5:00 pm -
Black Mountain Tailgate Market →
Black Mountain Tailgate Market, 130 Montreat Rd, Black Mountain
9:00 am
Wednesday July 8
Thursday July 9
Saturday July 11
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- This is Bob.
Don't Be a Bob. Be Bearwise. BearWise Grilling Tips: - Don’t leave food unattended. - Clean grill, drip pan and grate after every use. - Store… (Nextdoor )
- Ingles Markets, Inc. posted a job opening for Housekeeper in Black Mountain. Apply here.
- PruittHealth posted a job opening for NC State Veterans Home-Black Mountain Housekeeping in Black Mountain. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Old Fort here.
🗞 Nearby News
Black Mountain
- Black Mountain College Studies Building Recognized by World Monuments Fund (artforum.com)
Marion
- Kids in the Creek program seeks to repair river at McDowell greenway for education to continue (mcdowellnews.com)
Swannanoa
- RiverLink works to restore native bamboo plant able to resist floodwaters (wlos.com)
- Helene-damaged property buyouts from FEMA begin in Buncombe County (citizen-times.com)
- FEMA approves $197M more in Helene recovery funding. Here's where it's going (cardinalpine.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A pork chop (Thank you Jody M. for sending it in!)
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