The Good News Gazette: Issue 1
Well, folks, the CFO has taken me to task for being insensitive, politically incorrect and overly negative about the flatlands. Accordingly, I've taken a vow to only report the good news from there. I'll leave all the bad stuff -- should there be any bad news -- for the News and Observer to bring to you.
So, now for some good news.
Seems there's a severe drought going on down in the flatlands which could be construed as bad news. But, wait! Not so fast. Judy Bolin, President of N.C. Big Sweep, the nonprofit organization that goes around pick up trash in our waterways, reports that because of the drought, "a lot of volunteers were able to clean up some places that are normally under water."
In this, our very first issue of The Good News Gazette, we are happy to report that, as a result of the drought, a statue of a Hindu god was found along a Cary creek. And, in the N&O there's a photo of David Webster holding aloft a dark beer bottle he found up in North Raleigh on Cedar Island in Falls Lake while his wife, Donna, dutifully records his find in a N.C. Big Sweep log sheet on a clipboard she is holding. Similarly, you understand, the island had became accessible only because of the drought. Otherwise, that glass beer bottle could have laid in the mud at the bottom of Falls Lake unbeknown to anyone for the next hundred million years.
There you have it, folks, silver linings in clouds that don't even exist!
More good news later!
So, now for some good news.
Seems there's a severe drought going on down in the flatlands which could be construed as bad news. But, wait! Not so fast. Judy Bolin, President of N.C. Big Sweep, the nonprofit organization that goes around pick up trash in our waterways, reports that because of the drought, "a lot of volunteers were able to clean up some places that are normally under water."
In this, our very first issue of The Good News Gazette, we are happy to report that, as a result of the drought, a statue of a Hindu god was found along a Cary creek. And, in the N&O there's a photo of David Webster holding aloft a dark beer bottle he found up in North Raleigh on Cedar Island in Falls Lake while his wife, Donna, dutifully records his find in a N.C. Big Sweep log sheet on a clipboard she is holding. Similarly, you understand, the island had became accessible only because of the drought. Otherwise, that glass beer bottle could have laid in the mud at the bottom of Falls Lake unbeknown to anyone for the next hundred million years.
There you have it, folks, silver linings in clouds that don't even exist!
More good news later!
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