I have lived in Watauga since 1980.

In addition to the tourism industry, Education is a major industry in our fair city, Boone. Education, as in. . . Appalachian State University.

Your energetic membership--all of you--should register as students, whether part-time or full-time, at ASU. Those associations will afford each of you some advantages.

The huge demand for student and faculty housing in Boone is one factor in the high cost of living in Boone.

The sooner you all get involved at ASU, the sooner you will find yourselves, I believe, exploring new possibilities for affordable housing in our hometown and its absolutely beautiful county.