Got integrity Rick Howell? Retiring Shelby City Manager: by Sandra Stroud
I would like to encourage the readers of this publication to get a copy of this last Shelby Shopper and turn to Page 5. There you will find an article headlined by “Howell Honored by City Council.”
There are a few people missing from the picture who should have been included. It would have been more fitting if the good friends to Rick Howell, in addition to Mayor Stan Anthony and David White, could have been included in the picture. Missing in the pic are good friends Eddie Holbrook, Roger Holland and David Dear. The residents of Shelby are not stupid people and we remember the “deals” that were hatched for some of the uptown projects involving those folks! I agree that Rick Howell has achieved all his desires for Uptown Shelby, but not for the residents who live in the neighborhoods and communities.
While the good friends were giving accolades, singing praises and reading oratoricals to honor Rick Howell, the rest of us are still driving around on streets full of potholes and worn-out asphalt, walking on cracked and holey sidewalks, seeing all the vegetation growing to the height of utility poles and covering vacant lots. It’s a beautiful scenic adventure to ride around the city and see all the buildings falling in and the abundance of trash throughout the town.
Good job Rick Howell. We appreciate all your hard work in the uptown area. That didn’t require any integrity!
Sandra Stroud
Editor’s Note: This comment speaks for itself. 100%. Especially when you consider the County Taxpayers (including the City of Shelby taxpayers) who will be soon be putting up over $200 MILLION to tear down the uptown jail, courthouse and justice administration buildings to make way for a NEW Justice Center Complex at the very same uptown location. All the while, not one red cent has been budgeted for any new schools or recreational facilities. One should go down to the County Offices on Marion Street and ask to see the video “rendering” of this uptown project that all taxpayers will be paying for. More on this in other articles that will be coming out soon. Stay tuned!!
Sandra P. Stroud
Editor’s Note: Ms. Sandra Stroud is a fearless Champion of right and proper government in Cleveland County and the US. When Prayer at the beginning of School Board Meetings was the issue, Sandra Stroud stood up and voiced her strong support in front of 600+ citizens. When Shelby Schools refused to teach a deaf child, Sandra Stroud single-handedly made Shelby Schools mend their ways. When the Cleveland County Commissioners surrendered to a Federal Lawsuit against them by agreeing to a settlement that was Un-Constitutional; Sandra Stroud put her name and money behind a Federal Lawsuit and took the Cleveland County Commissioners to the US Federal Courts in Washington, DC and made the Commissioners mend their cowardly ways. When Sandra Stroud sends me her messages, I publish them. Word for Word. Sometimes satire, sometimes prose. When Sandra Stroud speaks, Robert A listens. When Sandra Stroud writes, Robert A publishes. If there is a typo, misspelling or unclear language, that is Robert A’s, mistake, not Sandra Stroud.
Folks, there are more citizens like Sandra Stroud and Robert A in Cleveland County that want bullying stopped in our schools and in our School Board and education improved. We want no more corruption like what was found out about the Catawba Casino, the bribed sale of our hospital for 2 cents on the dollar, endless sales tax increase referendums, endless property revaluations where Cleveland County has deployed drones to peep into our bedroom windows looking for whatever it is that they can use to raise property taxes over. And it goes on and on.
Stay tuned folks. If you want the truth, the whole truth and justified and logical speculation, you will get it here and perhaps not anywhere else in the same detail and depth of understanding. Also, folks, if you want to throw YOUR 2 cents into our knowledge base or just share your opinion, send it to Robert A. Your identity will be protected. It is completely understood that RETALIATION is alive and well in Cleveland County.
