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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (54125)	10/3/2013 12:47:56 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation of 85487

your fascist friends at work usatoday.com Watch for a Park Service SWAT team to descend on this criminal inn keeper Blue Ridge lodge to defy shutdown order The National Park Service has told the Pisgah Inn -- located along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina -- that it must close down Thursday and lodgers must be out by 6 p.m. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Rob Miller, general manager of the Pisgah Inn, watched the news this week as World War II veterans pushed past barricades to get to their memorial in Washington after the federal government shut down. He got to thinking about his own situation at the lodge along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The government owns the building and the land. The National Park Service had given him until 6 p.m. Thursday to shut down and kick out his 78 guests. He called Bruce O'Connell, owner of Pisgah Inn Inc., who was in Mexico. O'Connell had seen the same report about the veterans. They came up with a plan. "We thought if those guys can do it, we can make a stand," O'Connell said. "We just decided that it is in the visitors' best interest that we remain open." Miller told his guests Wednesday that the inn would not be closing STORY: Shutdown doesn't keep vets from WWII Memorial What will happen after the deadline passes Thursday is unclear. Parkway Chief Ranger Steve Stinnett said Wednesday that Washington was aware of the problem. He could not immediately say what steps the government might take to close the 51-room inn. "We are in discussions at this time," Stinnett said. A sign welcomes motorists to the Blue Ridge Parkway. The 469-mile byway cuts across the backbone of the Appalachian Mountains linking Virginia's Shenandoah National Park in the north with Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the south.(Photo: Jayne Clark, USA TODAY) The O'Connell family has operated the inn since 1977. It's one of the few remaining mom-and-pop concessionaires in the National Park Service. Park concessionaires have been told to close, and lodges have been given the 6 p.m. Thursdaydeadline to allow them time to get guests out. Miller called around on Wednesday trying to find other concessionaires who would stand with him but had no luck. He posted the plan on the inn's Facebook page, which garnered nearly 190 likes by late afternoon. People applauded the decision. "Glad to see that you will stay open," Mike Stinneford commented. "I can't imagine an October without the Inn." Wrote Jane Windle: "Some services are considered 'essential,' you fall within that category." Jane Windle wrote. Ostendorff also reports for the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times.

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