When opponents of the plant, which as proposed would generate electric power using chicken waste, showed up at the meeting Monday, they were, as reports indicate, less than, to put it mildly, civil.
And the commissioners, especially chairman Paul Johnson, faired no better, threatening the Fibrowatt folks that talked during the meeting a police escort out of the building.
There is no disputing that for many folks opposition to the plant has become more than an everyday issue, but a passionate cause.
And with that passionate pursuit of one's idea of the truth, reasonableness and civility is sometimes forgotten.
And that goes for both sides of the issue.
On Monday night, two things might have happened that would have allowed the debate on Fibrowatt to continue without the dramatics.
One, commission chairman Johnson should have let one Fibrowatt opponent speak. And two, there should have been one person designated by the Citizen's Alliance for a Clean Healthy Economy (the Fibrowatt opposition group) to address the commissioners.
This issue will continue to heat up. We hope that in the future cooler heads will prevail.
•There is much to do the Tri-City area this weekend. The students at Elkin High School are presenting their annual spring drama production, “Little Shop of Horrors.”
One of the traditions of the Broadway musical, it that one of its stars, an enormous Venus Flytrap that has an appetite for red meat of the human persuasion, isn't revealed until opening night.
Tonight's the night. The students have been working hard and long hours the put on a top-notch production.
Don't miss it. It's sure to be a blast.
•We know the street departments of Elkin and Jonesville are doing their best to patch our streets after the damaging winter weather. But some of those patches look, and feel like when you're driving over them, like the cooling asphalt was dumped in the pothole and allowed to settle naturally. The result for many of the patches is a surface that is nearly as difficult to navigate as before. Perhaps the delicate touch of a skilled baker who knows how to work cake frosting is the answer to our pothole woes.
•You might have seen it on the page 1, but a local author T.D. Carter, who happens to be a former county commissioner, will do something few authors achieve and many long for, a book signing at the Borders Book Store in Charlotte. If you get a chance, head south and find Rea Road in Charlotte and visit Carter between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Monday.
•And what about Elkin High School's SAT scores? Whoa.
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