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To the folks who have organized and operated Operation Katie. Regular readers of The Mount Airy News will recognize Katie Bledsoe as a local young lady who received some catastrophic injuries in a car wreck in 1994. The home she and her family live in is not handicapped accessible — her wheel chair won’t even fit through the doorways — so a group of local residents started an effort two years ago to raise money to build her family a new hom...
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Politicians not keeping promises on jobs
It’s funny how politicians at virtually every level of government always pledge to create jobs, yet their actions seem to involve everything but the economy — whether it be a preoccupation with gun control, gay marriage or other irrelevant social issues. This really hit home with me the other day while researching some old newspaper articles. It was one of those situations where you’re looking for one item and stumble onto something else en...
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Early memories of the library
Some of my most vivid early memories are of the Mount Airy Public Library, the earliest from when it was located on West Pine Street, in the former home of E.H. Kochtitzky and his wife Mary Sparger Kochtitzky. I remember when I was only 2 years old, in the upstairs children’s room at the library, my mom standing behind me and helping me take a book off the shelf. My memories of that old house are vague — a fleeting memory of staircase, a me...
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GOP lawmakers should stay the course on illegal immigration bill
A few North Carolina Democratic lawmakers seem to have a problem with pending legislation proposed by some GOP members. While that’s not exactly news, in this case the legislation centers around the hot-button issue of immigration. North Carolina legislators have approved a bill that allows the granting of restricted driver’s licenses to those living in the country illegally, but that same bill authorizes local and state police to detain an...
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The siren’s song and when to call Fescue 911
Lawns and myself have a history. Early on general consensus, using the extremely scientific litmus test of popular discussion, tagged me as a book reader and not the sort of person you want to sink time into teaching a trade. It was just understood Ted’s boy (that’s how I was most often referred to) was goin’ to college. For what, the town didn’t say. My father’s worries over me daydreaming and pulling a mower over my toe were more than he ...
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Writing the letters the old-fashioned way
Texts, emails, instant messages — those didn’t exist in my years as a youth, but I was what my mom called her “social butterfly” and that meant finding a way to communicate with others. We would frequently go on camping trips to state and national parks as well as private campgrounds, and I was always making new friends who lived far away from the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina. So what did we do to keep in touch? We exchanged addresses...
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