September fourth, twenty twenty-five meeting of the Green Throw City Council.

Um, this meeting was scheduled to enable us to go into closed session watch a body worn camera video.

I moved to go into closed session to review the body worn camera, BWC footage of the May 14th, twenty twenty-five traffic stop for the purpose of oversight accountability and potential policy reform.

We are back at the fair, Central Carolina Fair for how many years now with Michael's amusements?

This is their 15th year, my 29th year here.

What makes you love this place so much?

Well, when we come to town, it's always really hot, and when the fair starts, it cools right down.

It's just like beautiful weather here in North Carolina.

Alright, so we're on one of the new attractions.

What is this?

This is the new wacky shack.

It's a fun house, it's an extreme fun house.

It has 16 different tricks.

Once you come in and you do go through all the things, and then the last part is a circular slide coming down.

It is for basically all ages.

They're also uh another new attraction.

We have the orbiter, which is a super spectacular ride.

Now it doesn't go upside down, but it does everything else.

You're saying it spins very quickly.

It spins and then spins some more.

Funnel cake after you get off, right?

Exactly, exactly.

And of course, when you talk about funnel cakes, they were number one last year.

Corn dogs were number two, turkey legs were number three.

So this year the competition is hopefully the corn dogs can overtake the funnel cakes.

Alright, we'll see.

What is your favorite of those three?

Uh all three.

James Hammond is the ringmaster here at the Central Carolina Fair.

Uh tell us about your history with the fair because it's a long one.

Oh, yeah.

Well, our history with the fair, not just in the fair, in circus in general.

Now we're here at the fair with the circus.

We've been doing circuses since 1917.

Wow.

Yeah.

I'm fifth generation of producing circuses.

I'm an eighth-generation circus performer.

Now here at the fair, our family has a long history of being here.

We were back here going back, only certain people are gonna know this.

The Guildford County Fair, the Greensboro Agricultural Fair.

We were here before that Coliseum was even built.

We were here when they raised the roof on the Coliseum.

So we've been here a very, very long time, and we're fortunate enough that they still bring us in as the entertainment to this day.

I mean, there was there was never any doubt, I don't think.

Was there any doubt that you would be in the circus yourself?

Basically, as long as I could remember.

What do you love most about it?

The audience seeing their faces, hearing the laughs, hearing the crowds roar.

It's it's a great thing.

But my very, very favorite thing is this thing behind me right here.

Yeah, I was gonna say speaking of roars, this little roar that's gonna be happening right here, right?

Oh, yeah, so I have my friend Turbo Tyler in there.

He is on a Honda 150R.

He is inside what we call the globe of death.

It is a 14 and a half foot round sphere, and he found found a way to get that motorcycle racing around in there, and he's gonna show us right now what to do.

All right, I'm getting out of the way.

All right, well done.

Okay.

Does that scare you to even watch him do that?