Randolph County Manager, Dick Wells Wants Asheboro To Live Up To Her Nickname: "Trashboro"

In the light of a new day, I'm thinking there might have been another reason for the powers-that-be at the Courier Tribune to have removed "Beth Smith's" comments (referring to Asheboro as "Trashboro") . . . not-to-mention my blistering responses . . . from the comment thread of Mary Anderson's spin-job on Pat & Mike Bradshaw's battle with the City of Asheboro (over the fair administration of the Asheboro Farmer's market).

The Courier KNEW something controversial and provocative was coming . . .

Randolph County Manager Richard (I like to call him Dick) Wells, has volunteered Randolph County's services in the disposal of Greensboro's trash.

It's front page online at the Greensboro News & Record - the spin being that Randolph County will be Greensboro's "savior".

Nary a word over on the Courier Tribune.  Not a Womick or a Walker or an Anderson in sight to break a story of this magnitude.  Nope.  Let the News & Record (with their track record) spin it first.

Mr. Wells (as I indicated previously, I like to call him Dick - after the way he treated Ginger Hunt and decimated the Randolph County Department of Child Support Enforcement) says this project is on a "fast track" . . . and the citizens of Greensboro could be dumping their trash in Randolph County as early as 2012.

Dick's proposal will involve using the old county landfill here (closed since 1997 because no one wanted to upgrade it to meet state specs - kinda like the roads over on Dave's Mountain that Billie Wilson and Walker Moffit built) . . . and, if Dick gets his way playing "savior" . . . the project will eventually include an additional 160 undeveloped acres nearby - surrounded by chicken farms (which, I'm sure Dick will reason, stink anyway) and bordering a river (so much for water quality downstream).

That actually makes sense.   In "Trashboro", crap always flows downhill.

Locals, of course, understand that Randolph County is now serving as the new "East Greensboro".  And if Dick Wells has his way, I anticipate that we here in Randolph County are going to have about as much voice in this process now as did the lesser beings living around Greensboro's White Street Landfill back in the 1940's.

For all of the trash-talk about "environmental racism" whenever the subject comes up in Greensboro, at the time the landfill was built, those most affected were rural folk and predominantly white.

History does have a way of repeating itself.

The Jabbas who've run "Trashboro" and Randolph County into the ground cannot get the young professionals to flock here . . . because said Jabbas have a history of treating them like garbage. 

So now the Jabbas gonna sell their souls and our land - for someone else's garbage.

It's all to give the progressive folks in Greensboro more time (30 years) to figure out how to process their garbage in a prettier, less-smelly, more environmentally-friendly fashion . . . never mind how their DUMP will affect the rednecks and Republicans further south.

The Randolph County Jabbas will be heroes and saviors for doing it.  Never mind how bad it smells . . . and is gonna smell . . . in northern Randolph County.

I, for one, am so gratified that we in Randolph County can once again take a hit for the smarter, prettier, much more progressive and enlightened citizens of Guilford County. 

"Cooperating" with Cone, and concentrating on the wrong things, has turned our local healthcare to crap.

"Cooperating" with Greensboro has the water going somewheres else.

But in Greensboro you see, "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and all of the children are above average".  They must be serviced. 

They cannot be expected to take care of their own garbage.

Afterthought:

Here is a list of the Randolph County Commissioners (aka Jabbas) - including Dick Wells - who want to turn Randolph County into a trash-dump for Greensboro.

And here is the e-mail address of Dick Wells: 

CountyManager@co.randolph.nc.us. 

(My suggestion . . . as I have a lot of experience writing these very important types . . . is that you send yourself a copy, flag it as "important", and ask for a "read receipt".  Otherwise, it will be like dropping a comment-of-any-substance at the Courier Tribune . . . and deleted to SPAM.)

Citizens of Asheboro, Randleman and Randolph County, if you do not want this to happen . . . if you want Dick Wells to take his "fast track" to a really bad smell and stuff it . . . I suggest your start writing these "right people" right now.