Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
Squirrel shuts Civic Center
We all knew the Ashvegas Civic Center sucks. Now we know just how hard it sucks. WLOSers told us Monday afternoon that a squirrel shut the place down for about an hour.
The dumb nut apparently got himself tangled up in the Civc Center’s power station and knocked out electricity to the place just before a Montford Park Players performance of A Christmas Carol for school children. The performance is held in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.
It took about 45 minutes to scrape fried squirrel off a transformer and get the lights back on, and the play went off without a hitch. The outage also didn’t harm the ice rink that’s installed now for holiday skating at the Civic Center.
All good. But if a squirrel can take down the Civic Center for an hour…
Hair bawl
The Asheville Middle School student who got kicked out of school for adding a few tame red highlights to her hair, then got reinstated after all the media attention around the situation, can’t leave well enough alone. The girl stood up before the Ashvegas School Board Monday night and gave them yet another piece of her mind.
The girl cried, just like she cried on camera for WLOS a few days ago, and told the school board shame for making me cry, shame for making me miss my studies and shame for giving other kids ammunition to pick on me.
Well, I say that if you’d just sit down and be quiet, this mess would blow over, girl.
Mikey and the lights
We all know Mike “Cabana Boy” Cuevas reads Ashvegas. And loves it. But we didn’t know he’d start ripping off ideas for stories and video.
Monday night before one of his weather-guessing forecasts (anyone notice how WLOSers totally blew the snow forecast? That’s a topic for another post…), Cabana Boy showed us video of the beautiful blinky lights at a house on none other than Mildred Avenue in West Ashvegas, the house, we wrote about this weekend, just a few posts ago. (scroll down)
Cuervo, the least you could have done is give a little shout-out to ashevilleblog.com for giving your photographer the idea. If not, we’ll be looking for at least a little thank you comment here soon.
Toy story
Jon “Punnyman” Le filed the first of what we expect will be several “Absolute (Suck) Le” reports on Christmas toys. Monday night, his topic was noisy toys.
Le hit a couple of toy stores and played conductor with all the obnoxious singing and dancing stuffed animals, including a penguin that does a horrible rendition of the Vanilla Ice classic. It left us with a headache, and wishing for some silence from Le himself.
Not do defend Cuevas, cause I am not a fan of him at all, but I was watching Good Morning America that morning as well and they kept talking about how Western North Carolina was going to get record amounts of snowfall. Same thing over on the weather channel too. It would seem to me that the AMS needs to step up its criteria for people to become so called "weather experts." Shit, I can go outside and tell you if its cold or not.
Note: Above comment was submitted Tuesday morning, when this post had a grand total of three lines, basically what appeared to be Ash’s notes to himself about what he wanted to write about. Now that the post is complete, the comment makes no sense.
Oh, by the way, it’s stretching a bit to claim credit for the Christmas house, since they’ve done that story every year for the past decade or more.
This is going to get boring, if that’s all you give us. Of course, maybe that just implies that we all know how much the ‘LOSers suck (or, at least, how predictable they are) that we only need a phrase to figure out what you would have written in a more detailed account.