Southern Appalachian Crime

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Peacemaking for Dummies: Forgive as you have been forgiven.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You offer food to satisfy our needs. Often we ignore what you put before us. We prefer sweets and junk food and won’t touch the fruit and vegetables. We neglect the well-rounded diet our souls need. Often, too, our churches offer baby food, rather than the substance that satisfies. Or they present us with stale leftovers that have lost their ability to fulfill our longings.

Heighten our sensitivity to the food you present. Make our hunger for it stronger than the tempting but false claims of both gourmet and junk food vendor. Feed us ‘til we want no more.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“You might want to keep this chalice, Nathaniel. Someday it will be worth a fortune.”

[No, He wasn’t into fortune telling.]

D. Blog: Crime in Southern Appalachia

[Sometimes stereotypes fit – the names, the criminal activity and the writing.]

FLETCHER (NC) Police here charged two men with breaking into a Fletcher business late Saturday.

Officers responded to a breaking and entering at Charlie’s on the Creek, 145 Hoopers Creek Road, according to a Fletcher police news release. While processing the crime scene, officers obtained suspect information from surveillance footage.

Investigators discovered two men had entered the business, taken two cases of beer and left on a scooter, police said. A Henderson County Sheriff’s deputy located one of the suspects riding a scooter on Hutch Mountain Road in Fletcher. The second suspect was later found and charged.

Charged were Andrew Robert Conner, 23, of Glenn Bridge Road, Arden, and Curtis Andrew Wallace, 18, of Plucky Lane, Candler. Their bonds were set at $10,000 each.