December 8, 2006 - Friday

Todays Gazette is being brought to you,
in part by, Walt Disney & Wally DeSautel.
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The current temperature is 22 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 15/-11
Normal H/L temp for this date is 23/6
Normally our weather isn't normal.
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"Profanity makes ignorance audible."
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L O C A L news & stuff,.. mostly stuff.
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GOOFY'S BACK ==== GOOFY'S BACK
Thank God,... and the Grafton Police Department, Goofy (one of them
anyway) has been returned to his rightful place in Leistikow Park.
If you think finding a needle in a hay stack is difficult. Try finding
a Disney Character in a pile of snowcat dust and snowman appendages. I'm
not sure exactly how Goofy was discovered, altho' I'll bet it would make
an interesting television show. (Tho God knows it doesn't take much
nowdays.)
Anyway, I was driving thru Leistikow Park this morning and there he
was, right back where he started out the holiday season. I did check the
trees and light poles around the park and didn't see anyone hanging in
them, so I'm guessing "we" haven't found the scoundrel responsible for
the theft.
Oh well, the most important thing for now is that GOOFY IS BACK.
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Yesterday was the day American Crystal Sugar held it's annual meeting
in Fargo. If one were to use the rumors, newspaper articles, and, some
of the coffee shop conversation as an indication. You could conclude the
meeting "might" end up to be a replication of the Battle of the little
big horn. With company management personnel, and, the agricultural
Department in particular, playing the part of General Custer. While the
grower owners, ("stockholders") were portraying the role of the Early
Americans.
I haven't heard anything specific, but I'm guessing everyone made it
through the meeting unscathed. Although,... I did see a couple
agriculturist in Cabela's late Thursday afternoon. I couldn't tell if
they were in there looking for "more ammunition" or fishing equipment.
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This ones about hockey. >>> Gary,
Curt and I went to the hockey game Tuesday in town and watched our
boys win the game. They are very spunky and we look forward to a good
year. However they have decided that it is necessary to blare music
during all the intermissions full time. I can see that it could be
good to get the kids revved up but too much is too much. <<< I'm pretty
sure if I look at this note real hard, I could find a bit of me in there
as well. And, I'll bet if you took a poll - it seems like that's the
way things are done nowdays - most "older folks" would tend to agree. To
much, is too much. Or so it seems to me.
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The Grafton Volunteer Firefighters were called out last night to a fire
southeast of town. The alarm went off somewhere around 1:00 am. Which of
course means most of the firefighters had little more than just gone to
bed. This morning, shortly after 8:30, they were putting their equipment
back in the fire halls. That is, of course, the equipment and personnel
that wouldn't be needed to stand guard over the buildings smoldering
remains.
Then too, I suspect, today being a "normal" work day, most of those
"volunteers" will have to go to work with out sleep, probably without
breakfast, after fighting that fire all night.
Not to be forgotten too, are the Volunteer members of the Grafton
area Valley Ambulance and rescue squad. They too were called out to the
fire, with some of those folks spending the night making sure anyone
that might need medical attention would get it ASAP as well.
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If there isn't room for one more person in your house. The problem
isn't the size of the house." Or so it seems to me.
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Funny how things go sometimes. I was in the "library" doing a bit of
research the other night and stumbled upon an interesting fact in a
early edition of the SPOILER BEAT.
While reading the Class prophecies for the future,.. dated May 20, 1987
I noticed that Darren Blanchards "prophecy" was to open up his own
drive-in called the Eastside Drive-in.
Now I don't expect anyone really believes class prophecies will ever
come to past. Certainly Darrens didn't. He ultimately opened up the
"Westside Drive-in".
And, the last time I checked, Chad Bjorneby isn't whizzing around Wall
Street either. However, Chad and B & D Flooring & Carpet cleaners, are
whizzing around cleaning living room carpets with the best of them.
Aren't memories wonderful?
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GOTTA - GO - WORK - ON - MY - DASH
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