King City Council meeting was standing room only - Residents can speak out again on Monday

(By Leslie Bray, The Stokes News) - It was all the rage to arrive fashionably early at the regular King City Council meeting on Monday evening, Oct. 4. By 6:30—still an half hour before the gavel fell—the room was jammed to capacity, and about 50 more people were standing outside, unable to fit into the small chamber. Local television stations had microphones set up at the podium in anticipation of some public comments worth reporting.

They got what they came for.

All but one speaker argued in favor of flying the Christian flag at the Veterans Memorial in King’s Central Park. The lone voice which applauded the King City Council’s Sept. 15 decision to remove the controversial flag from the Memorial was former King City Councilwoman Carolyn Byerly.