A little Saturday news

Peace rally
WLOSer Kassandra “Special K” Pride went to Pack Square, where she said a few dozen people had gathered to rally for peace and against President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq.

Kassandra held their balloons and read their signs and quoted a couple of people saying its time to bring the troops home. Kassandra also talked to a guy on a motorcycle rigged with a sign that we couldn’t read. The guy said if our forefathers were “cowards like these people, we’d all be speaking German or something.”

The rally in Ashvegas coincided with a rally that drew tens of thousands protesting war in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

Bad wreck
There was a head-on collision on Leicester Highway Saturday night that left a pick-up and a car in a mangled, burning mess. The driver of each vehicle had to be cut out and taken to the hospital. No word on conditions.

In other news…
The Little Gym in Biltmore Park will hold a fund-raising event for the Avery King fund. Avery was the little girl run down and killed in a McDonald’s parking lot near Atlanta last year. The south Asheville Earth Fare sponsored a safety lecture for parents and their kids. McGruff the Crime Dog was there… Cub Scouts got together in Skyland Saturday for the annual Pinewood Derby, where the scouts race wooden cars their built with their dads. Russ said he had fond memories of the event as a child… And the* David Sherill Diamond Skills Center* opened center. The indoor practice facility for baseball lovers was named after a Tuscola High School student who died in a car wreck last year. The facility will be dedicated Sunday, with a keynote address by former Major League Baseball pitcher Darren Holmes of Ashvegas.