editor's blog
By Kelli Straka
O-N-E Intern
Throughout my life, I can always recall my mother asking me if I remembered to bring (insert item here) before I left the house. I would grumble that I didn’t need it, refuse to bring it and regret not doing so.
This past Saturday wasn’t any different.
A couple of my friends and I went camping near Calloway Peak on the Daniel Boone Scout Trail. Instead of lugging around a tent, we decided it would be more fun to sleep in hammocks. It would have been, if it hadn’t been so cold.
By LaDonna Beeker
O-N-E Editor
I’ve been editor of The Observer News Enterprise for two years. I can guarantee that one thing still remains the same: We report the news about Catawba County for residents in the county. The main thing The O-N-E strives to do is to continue serving its readers – Catawba County residents. In order to do this to the fullest extent, we need to hear from our readers.
By Nash Dunn
O-N-E Staff Writer
Billy Townsend was floating at the bottom of a well – a cold, dark, deep and dirty hole.
He fell 40 feet while working on the old well’s pump more than an hour ago, barely hanging on to the slippery clay walls and few drop cords lowered to him.
“I’m cold,” Townsend’s voice echoed faintly.
By Cody Dalton
O-N-E Sports Editor
My view of the sports realm has remained fairly consistent, until the last 110 days or so. First, the NFL locked out its players on March 12. Then, this past Thursday morning at 12 a.m., my opinion of professional sports became even lower.
For the second time in just more than 100 days, another sports league, the NBA, locked out its players on Thursday. This begins yet another stalemate between two sides over one thing and one thing only — money.
By Kelli Straka
O-N-E Intern
“Star Wars” fanatics, brace yourselves — what I am about to reveal could have you crying bumblefluff like a Wookie for the rest of the day. And if you’re not an absolute “Star Wars” nerd, all you need to know is what I am about to say is a little shocking.
In the last 19 years of my existence, I had never seen a “Star Wars” movie until last week.
It’s not that I didn’t want to see them; it’s merely because I haven’t gotten around to it. Watching “Star Wars” hasn’t exactly been at the top of my priority list these past 19 years.
By Barbara Burns
Outlook Editor
I don’t think I’ll ever understand why men don’t ask for help. That’s the way it’s been since, well, probably the days of the cave man.
In books and movies, I don’t recall a cave man ever seeking help from a cave woman. Ugh, I recalled drawings of a cave man dragging his cave woman around by her hair. “We’ve come a long way, baby.”
By Nash Dunn
O-N-E Staff Writer
Rain droplets fell lightly on the top of my head, but came down just heavy enough to look for cover.
My left and right foot splash, splash, splashed as I glided over to the front porch shelter of Sebastian’s Design and Boutique in Conover.
My first priority was making sure my camera was dry and working, but it wasn’t too wet.
Across Sebastian’s parking lot, men were at work in hard hats and dirty T-shirts. They wielded black and white chain saws and did not waste much time as they scurried about the area in a hurry.
By Cody Dalton
O-N-E Sports Editor
As I tried to make my schedule for this coming week of sports coverage for the newspaper, I was shocked to see one date in particular on the calendar — June 27.
That was yesterday — a day that marked my six-month anniversary as a member of the editorial staff with The Observer News Enterprise and member of the Catawba County community. My first day of work as the sports editor for the newspaper was Dec. 27.
By Kelli Straka
O-N-E Intern
From peeing off the side of a sea kayak in alligator-infested waters to working as an intern at The Observer News Enterprise and sales associate at Amy’s Hallmark in Valley Hills Mall, life has certainly changed for me within the last two weeks.
Typically when most people think of taking a vacation, a thought of lying out on the beach and avoiding all work possible comes to mind. Yet my summer vacation included traversing 427 miles mostly in a canoe and sea kayak.
By Barbara Burns
Outlook Editor
I wonder about a lot of things. Just barely into summer (this is the third day, to be exact), I wonder how I ever withstood the heat and humidity of summer in the Catawba Valley. Two answers come to mind.
Global warming accounts for higher temperatures all year long. In a nut shell, it’s hotter nowadays — much warmer than, say, 50 years ago.
