The news: remembering 9/11

Remembering, so we’ll never forget
That was an actual line that one of the WLOSers used in Monday’s newscast, which was almost totally devoted to the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. WLOSers went all out to try and tell us how that day changed our lives, and the lives of some of the people of Ashvegas.

Sheraldo interviewed a Red Cross volunteer.

WLOSers noted that Jennifer Lewis, a member of the West Henderson High School class of ’81 was a flight attendant who died aboard one of the hijacked planes. There’s a monument in her honor on the campus.

Newbie Pat Simon walked around downtown and noticed that the Battery Park Bistro had a giant American flag in the window, so he talked to the restaurant owner, Don Gundry, who said he was in New York the day of the World Trade Center tower attacks and watched the aftermath.

WLOSers noted that many people flew the American flag on Monday. Others interviewed said they hoped for peace.

On the homeland security front, WLOSers said Western North Carolina had received about $5 to $6 million in disaster preparedness federal money. Most of that has gone for hazardous material suits, equipment and training.

In other news…
A couple of doctors’ offices somewhere suffered a mudslide after recent rains, and they’re blaming a developer who is working above them on a mountainside…. There’s been an arrest in that Hendersonville stabbing death from a week ago… And Michelle Boudin says an attorney in an election fraud case in Madison County alleges that the local DA is playing politics by only prosecuting members of the opposite political party (the DA is a Repub and he’s prosecuting Dems).