Spring is finally here! With it comes many exciting events to the Haywood County Agriculture and Activities Center. We hope you will visit many of the upcoming events and support your community. All money generated from events at the HCAAC is spent on various projects, maintenance, repair, and operating expenses. All board members are volunteers who donate many hours overseeing facility operations. In addition to board members, there are many committee members not on the board, and many community volunteers, including schools, law enforcement, and individuals that work tirelessly to make Haywood County a better community. If you are interested in helping with a project or event, please call 828-456-3575 and put your name on the list. Someone will be contacting you to let you know how you can help.


Our ongoing project at the moment is more arena seating. A few months ago 750 permanent bleacher seats were installed. An additional section will be installed in the next few months, bringing our seating capacity to 1500. As funds become available, additional bleacher sections will be purchased for a final seating capacity of 2700. Pisgah High School students are building a stage with electrical outlets for sound for the arena. THANK YOU ALL! Our future plans are to enclose and heat the arena. If you would like to make a donation or be a sponsor, visit our homepage and click on sponsors to see how you can help us and we will advertise for you.

If you have not brought the family to one of our monthly fundraiser Flea Markets held the first Saturday each month, mark you calendar for April 5! We fix breakfast so you don’t have to! Other concessions are also available. Get up early and come on down to find the bargain of the day!

Don Smart and Neal Stamey would be delighted if you would join them for the Spring Farm Equipment Auction to be held April 12, 2008. If you have something to sell, call 828-456-3575 for information. For more details, click on the Events tab on the website and type Equipment Auction in the search box. Start your day with breakfast with us, and concessions will be available all day.

Everybody loves a circus! Bring the whole family and have some real fun on April 13 when the Louis and Clark Circus will be in town. Cotton candy, elephants, tigers, and clowns will cheer the winter blahs away!

ARC of Haywood County gets the balls rollin’ and the crowd goes wild when they bring the 9-Ball Shoot Out to our facilities. Ready, set, lights up, balls racked, cues chalked, sweaty palms. ACTION is what it is when Gary Caldwell presents championship trophies April 23 through April 27. Come join in the fun and help Gary in this fundraiser for a worthy cause for citizens of Haywood County.

STRAWBERRIES are coming to the May 3rd Flea Market! Yum, yum! To reserve your berries early, call 828-456-3575. Berries are $10.00 a gallon and the vendor again this year is Cooley Farms, so you know they are sweet and juicy and an extra handful goes in each bucket. They won’t last long, so hurry on down! You might just find a great bargain at the flea market too!

Fish Fry is what I heard Wallace Messer say last week! That’s right, coming in May. I tried to find Wallace to see what day and what kind of fish he was frying, but you guessed it, he’s out fishin’! This is our second annual fish fry, so bring a hungry crowd and enjoy fish, hushpuppies, coleslaw, baked beans, and yummy desert. The date to mark your calendar will be published real soon.