Street preacher controversy
A bunch of preachers went to a Hendersonville City Council meeting Thursday night to complain about an ordinance that says anybody who wants to hawk on the street has to get a permit. A preacher from Alabama or somewhere had been warned a couple of times to get the permit and he refused. He ended up getting arrested and that has sparked the controversy.
Russ “Beefcake” Bowen, looking slick as a Sunday preacher himself, went to Hooterville to listen to the pastors complain about their Constitutional rights being trampled. City Council just listened, then moved on. Russ said the council has no plans to change the rules.
It’s cold outside
Just a couple of weeks ago we were setting record high temperatures. Remember that? Now we could be setting a series of record low temps, and farmers are worried about their crops. Gardeners are pulling everything inside.
Mike “Cuervo” Cuevas said it was supposed to get down to 28 overnight Thursday, which would tie the record low. Cuevas forecast 24 for the low Saturday; 20 for the low Sunday and 23 for the low Monday. Damn that’s chilly!
In other news…
Lots of people are off work today, Good Friday, as they start their Easter weekend holiday. Next week is spring break for lots of local school systems… Traffic downtown will move better once the state DOT installs a computerized system to synchronize stop lights down Patton Avenue from Clingman to MLK Drive. The system costs $700,000, reported Carolyn “Little Red” Ryan, who said a fiber optic cable will be installed to connect everything… Hendersonville city council made parts of downtown a historic district… The two men killed when a crane overturned on a job site in Transylvania County were not wearing harnesses and weren’t following safety procedures… And state lawmakers are working on a bill that apologizes for slavery. Local African-Americans that WLOSers talked to say it’s too late, way too late.