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“….We had a slight weapons malfunction, but, uh, everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine, we’re all fine here now, thank you. How are you?”

-Han Solo

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Mtn. X has the dets:

In last week’s election, Asheville City Council member Robin Cape received 4,478 write-in votes, according to figures from the Board of Elections. While Cape’s bid for a second term was serious, many of the other write-in votes were not (Squirt the Wonder Clam, really?).

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Hillcrest Fire Relief. I don’t think I’ve seen anything here about the Hillcrest fire. One of my co-workers lives at Hillcrest. I asked her what folks could do to help people who were displaced by (and lost their homes and everything in them) in the fire. At first she suggested that I give to the local Red Cross. (www.redcrosswnc.org) However, yesterday she said that residents had held a meeting and there is someone at the Hillcrest office that is organizing collecting support for the displaced families. I’m working on getting in touch with that person and will post info here. Does anyone else have information about Hillcrest fire relief?

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The giving spirit of Asheville never fails to inspire.

This is cool too: A dozen and a half of Asheville’s homeless population will be traveling to Mississippi tomorrow morning to help post-Katrina reconstruction efforts as part of a service project — they’ll be driven down by volunteers from Trinity Episcopal, and they’ll be gone for a week.

Wish them well and keep them in your thoughts.

MM

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