If you weren't in Eureka Springs for the first day of the Domestic Partnership Registry, we're sorry, but you missed it--the ceremonial opening of City Hall's official can of worms.

Dedicated Gay News Bureau staffers presented Mayor Dani Wilson with a lovely, recyclable container of genuine, imported Canadian Nightcrawlers--a deeply symbolic gesture since, after all, gay marriage is legal in Canada.

Mayor Wilson accepted this munificent, diplomatic offering with all the pomp we might expect from her high office. (In other words, a couple of worms got loose on the mayor's Oriental carpet and only two or three onlookers shrieked and jumped on chairs.)

While we realize that opening a can of worms at City Hall on the first day of Eureka's Domestic Partnership Registry isn't quite like setting free the doves at a traditional wedding chapel, we were mightily attached to the symbolic little invertebrates here at Gay News.

So we hoped Eureka's famous worms would be rewarded for their historic contribution with a nice, long retirement full of worm-casting in one of our city's stunning flower gardens.

Alas, City Building Official and bass-fishing enthusiast Marion Chrysler found our heroes first.

Farewell, martyr worms!

Though you've long ago been digested by a bass and, by now, we assume the bass has been digested by Building Official Marion Chrysler, rest assured. Your contribution to the cause will not soon be forgotten.

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