This is one of those real fast columns written like a streak of lightning. It’s over on this page because we had to do some gyrations to move pages around to accommodate advertising from a couple of local governments, and the usual page 5 became page 4 and page 5 got mostly filled up with ads because they had to run on the same page.
But it’s helping keep the lights on when not much else is apart from a handful of regular advertisers we appreciate very much, so no complaints at all about that. Ever. Anyhow, today’s Editor’s Notes is being put together at the last minute because I like to live dangerously.
If I had a spirit animal, it would be a midget Bigfoot smacking a reality TV show host with a mackerel.
Anyhow, enough of that and on to a couple of corrections. Both involve embarrassing mistakes made by your’s truly, the world’s funniest looking hack editor.
The first involved the story last week on a proposed upscale apartment complex, etc., over by the Richmond Hill Post Office. One of the people I mentioned as being for the project was Angie Miner Foss, only in the print version I somehow wrote her name as Voss. I know that isn’t her name. We’ve had her name in our paper before. Still, by the time my brain caught up with my fingers the pages had already gone to press and my help was clocked out and driving home after a long day. I didn’t have the heart to ask her to turn back around.
The mistake got fixed online, but I figured I’d better correct it in print anyway. So here it is.
The second one came in a column I wrote on the need for an athletic hall of fame in Bryan County.
I added something last minute regarding the late Mike Foxworth being the only one in Pembroke with his name on a gym.
Not surprisingly I got called out on it by Alex Floyd, who did that by texting me a photo of a gym with Robert Bowers’ name on it at about the same time I started coming down with something akin to pneumonia. Which I might still have, the way I feel. At any rate, that prompted me to check out Mr.
Bowers’ career and it was certainly Hall of Fame worthy. He won more than 800 games as a basketball coach at BCHS and coached some greats there, and for my money if you had to name the hall of fame after someone you couldn’t go far wrong by calling it the Robert Red Bowers Bryan County Hall of Fame.
Peace out.