Gas prices suck
Gas in Ashvegas has hit $2.50 a gallon and higher, WLOSer Holly Headache tells us. And that’s a shock. But is it? Holly asks around to try and find out why gas prices jumped. But she doesn’t get a good answer. It’s spring break; there’s a war on in Iraq; it costs more to make the gasoline because of new environmental restrictions or some crap like that.
Holly quotes one good ole boy, who was obviously sweet on Holly because he kept joking and smiling, who offered this bit: “Buy a horse.”
Whatever.
Butterfly bust
WLOSers had a tasty little report about the so-called Migration Festival in Ashvegas that has been sucking wind. The “festival” amounted to the city putting up some painted, fabric butterflies on light poles. Ok. We think the idea had promise, sort of like that New York art project with all the colorful banners from a year or so ago.
But something went horribly wrong.The local businesses that sponsored the butterflies, to the tune of $250 to $500, started complaining because the paint wore off the fabric. The paint used on the butterflies didn’t hold up to the weather – the spring wind and rain and sun. The festival organizer said the March wind caught them a bit off guard. What? Where the hell are you from, buddy?
Changes along Haywood Road
There are big changes coming to Haywood Road. St. Joan of Arc Church has sold its land to a developer and plans to build a new church out in Candler. So the developer wants to hear what the community thinks should happen on the land.
This is big. There hasn’t been a new building built along Haywood Road in years; Ok, I take that back. There’s a new library. And there’s been a new church building built by the Baptist church across the street from St. Joan of Arc. But still, this is big. It sounds like whatever’s built will be a mix of business and residential.
It will be interesting to watch this project, another example of “in-fill”developement that residents in the current, established neighborhood most certainly will not like.
Sex with a student
The Erwin High School band director got busted for having sex with a student. Why is it always the band director that gets caught screwing the students? It’s either the band director or a coach. What’s up with that?
Rape verdict
The guy charged with raping an 85-year-old woman got sentenced to 71 years in prison. Good.
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quote: "The Erwin High School band director got busted for having sex with a student."
Actually, no. A student has *accused* the band director. Now, he may very well have done it, but I’m always leery when I hear that a student accuses a teacher or principal or coach or whomever of anything. I’m just not ready to, by default, accept the accusations of a teenager who may be looking for revenge for a bad grade, or for not getting to be the lead clarinetist, or whose money-grubbing mom sees a chance to sue the school system and move out of the single-wide, or any number of other things that might happen.
LOL! My high school PE teacher was nailing a female student during her junior and senior years, and everyone in town knew about it except, apparently, the guy’s wife. Two of the English teachers were caught going at it and each was married to someone else. The band director (really!) married a senior girl very shortly after her graduation. And these were the ones we knew about.
When I was student teaching later on I had a girl come on to me after school one day. She walked into the room on a pretense of something or other, sat down and let her already short skirt creep up her thigh. This was back in the days when girls still wore pantyhose rather than go barelegged and she began gathering the material and pulling it up her thigh. Then the skirt hem went up to her hips. She made comments about what I liked to do outside of school, etc. and suggested we get together Saturday night and party. I defused the situation and got her out of there, but I still remember that episode. It would have been interesting, to say the least, if anyone had walked in on us. Nothing happened or was going to, but try proving that.
I don’t know, maybe these band directors are not as swishy as some of them appear. Or maybe they’re waving more than a baton at band practice. Whatever, it’s been going on forever. I remember some guys catching the band director at our high school tuning his tuba one night in the band room with a female parent. They dashed out the back door, jumped in his VW Bug and we followed them all over town until he dropped her at the mall and we lost them in traffic. You’ve never seen a VW corner like that one. And it was 40 years ago, not yesterday. Another night we walked in on the FB coach and the wife of the booster club president, but that’s another story. Suffice it to say this lady could have given all of us a boost. Grrrrr.
– Bulldog