Rabbi Will McCubbins, China Grove, N.C.
♦ Tuesday night Rowan County broke the “deadlock of darkness” that long enveloped the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education with a statement vote placing Travis Allen and Dean Hunter on the new school board in December and dramatically changing the balance of power. It is time to revisit a brilliant and righteous idea put forward in 2013 by Chuck Hughes and championed by the Editor of the Rowan Free Press Steve Mensing at an alderman’s meeting in East Spencer not long after. All in attendance gave strong assent to East Spencer’s “Resolution Seeking Social and Economic Justice”. Editor Mensing’s impassioned and visionary talk that night was typically ahead of it’s time. Now the time has ripened. Indeed building the Central Office in East Spencer deserves full exploration by the coming Board of Education.
I and many others believe when the Board of Education, to be seated in December, wisely rejects the unconsolidated and over-priced Central Office proposed to be built on a postage stamp at 500 N. Main and the City of Salisbury tries to block the Central Office at the Belk’s Building, an obvious choice would be to build it on the ultra spacious and beautiful grounds of the current Long Street School Administration Building in East Spencer. It is the School System’s property. The Central Office should never have been snatched away from East Spencer in the first place.
http://rowanfreepress.com/2013/09/05/tuesday-evening-in-east-spencer-the-launching-of-a-movement/
Should I remind all the naysayers in crestfallen Salisbury that nowadays East Spencer is regarded as a safer and better place to park your shoes?
