TUXEDO — What is grits?
It sounds like one of those North vs. the South comic routines.
Southerner: What is grits?
Northerner: What are grits?
Southerner: Yeh, that’s what I’m askin’, what is grits?
Northerner: What are grits?
Southerner: I’m askin’ you.
Northerner: Yes, of course, my friend, but one must properly say, What are grits?
Southerner: Nope, one must not say, what are grits. One must say, What is grits.
The Southerner is right (again). One must say: What is grits, or more precisely, what is GRTZ?
That’s the acronym, pronounced grits, that county officials have been using for the fledgling Green River-Tuxedo-Zirconia community park, although no one seems to be using the phrase publicly. People in the southern Henderson County community might not like the term, even if it is a convenient and much shorter way of referring to the new park, which will be built on the site of the now razed Green River Manufacturing mill on N.C. 225.
Henderson County commissioners this week are set to appoint members of the committee that will steer park development. The Green River, Tuxedo & Zirconia Park Planning Committee, as it is formally known, will have seven members. All will be appointed by the Board of Commissioners, including the chairman, whom the commissioners will choose.
The charter for the committee charges it with advising the commissioners of the local people’s “views of the best use and design” of the property, which the county owns.

The committee has a sunset of Dec. 31 unless the term is extended. Would a fast-track plan be known as instant grits?