I’m usually a “glass half full” kind of guy. I’m such an optimist that my Generation X friends sometimes call me Optimist Prime. That’s a reference to the heroic leader of the good guy Autobots in The Transformers, for those not in the know.
Sometimes I get extremely geeky and explain that the pessimist can never be correct for the glass is never truly half empty. It’s actually always full – halfway with water and halfway with air, otherwise there’d be a vacuum and the glass would implode due to atmospheric pressure. But I digress…
As such, every Groundhog Day I like to think that the groundhog is going to predict an early Spring. This didn’t happen at the national celebration in Pennsylvania, but I’m happy to report that in this issue we’ve got an update from our own LOCAL groundhog – Tater – at Chimney Rock State Park wherein he DID predict an early Spring.
I’m taking the Tater on this one, folks.
And that’s not the only great piece of Spring time news in this issue of your hometown newspaper, we’ve also got our Natural Gardner David Ray talking about growing some brightly uplifting and chromatic flowers in the very near future and Tara Lembright Woodard writes about the return of a once upon a Spring time tradition of the America Cancer Society’s Relay for Life cancer research fundraiser to the Lake Lure area.
But perhaps even more amazing this year, Lake Lure Mayor Carol Pritchett is reporting that efforts to refill Lake Lure to full pond for the first time since Hurricane Helene are underway! The current plan – tentatively – is to have the lake back up to its full force and open to the public by Memorial Day.
We hope you enjoy these stories and more in the pages of this issue and we look forward to a great tourist season, amazing Spring and wonderful Summer supplying you with useful news, uplifting pieces and useful articles all year round.
Truly, hope springs eternal