The County Commissioners meeting was “standing room only” on Tuesday, December 6.

“In accordance with you gentlemen’s [the commissioners] continuous suggestion, as people try to work together, do things for the betterment of the county,” began Robert Brenner, attorney for the board, “we are doing things to try to get along, and work things out.”

The comment echoed a ‘can’t we all just get along’ appeal from another troubled time and city. This time, however, it also met with some effect.

Earlier, according to Brenner, he met for two hours with county attorney Dave Wilson, High Point Motor Speedway attorney Sterling Huff, commissioner Larry Brower, county clerk Cathy Sibal, and some representatives of the HPMS board to go through the language of a new petition.

“It turned out to be a professional and respectful meeting amongst all parties,” he said.

But there was more to come during the regular commissioner’s meeting. Huff announced that Shortie Kiefer, Brooke Kiefer, Wade Kiefer, Dick Cutshaw, Jackie Cutshaw, and Cathy Porter are all abandoning the recall petitions directed against county commissioners Brower and Engstrom, as well as county clerk Sibal.

Instead of passing recall petitions around the county, the Kiefers, Cutshaws and Porter will now seek signatures on a petition calling for a vote on the drag strip.

Recall petitions against the three have also been presented by Jim and Robert O’Brien.

“I don’t know, we haven’t decided,” Jim O’Brien responded when asked if they planned on abandoning the recall, as well.

“I’d like to thank everyone for working together, for coming in with a solution that can be agreeable with the county, as well as with the members of the High Point Speedway,” said commissioner David Bashaw, addressing all concerned. “It’s very import that we proceed with this thing, because it has been long in coming.”

Sibal was the driving force to getting everyone together to try and work issues out, according to Huff.

The former cases that each of the parties filed against each other were dismissed on the day of the commissioners meeting.  None of the existing lawsuits will be pursued.

Instead, both groups have apparently decided that that they would like to move forward more amicably from this point forward.

People applauded both sides.