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What this country needs is a special encyclopedia with blank pages for
the folks who think they know everything.
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The current temperature is 29°.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 30/21
Normal H/L temp for this date is 39/22
The hi on this date in 1999 was 73°. That must have been prior to the
time Al Gore discovered global warming.
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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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Only in a small town in America can you go down to city hall to pay
your utility bill and get half of it back in "community bucks".
Actually,.. I'm not even sure that many, if any, small towns have given
back money in any form, once they have control of it. In any event, I am
pleased that the Grafton city leadership has decided to do so in this
instance. I suspect there are as many reasons for, or against the
program as there are folks getting the refund. As is always the case
with "such things". I'll go on record as agreeing with the decision.
There is little question the additional monetary influx will have a
positive impact on the Grafton business community. That, in turn, will
have significant impact on every citizen living in the community as
well.
Or so it seems to me.
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Local news isn't, just, local any more. The Country Smokehouse story in
Monday's edition of the Grand Forks Herald not only went into thousands
of homes in the Red River Valley. It was probably read by as many folks,
or more, across the entire country. I've received several notes in the
last couple days indicating they keep up with the Valley's news by
reading the Herald via the internet. Notes like the following from
Darcie. She wrote. >>>
Hi Gary -
I too enjoyed reading the article on Dave and Kelly in the online
version of the GF Herald - it was great to see a picture of them as well
as I haven't seen them in years - since my babysitting days out on their
farm!! Reading the article reminded me of going to Gillespie's meat
marketon Saturday mornings with my Grandpa Joe. We always got
bacon and we'dtake it home and slice it on our very own meat
cutter!I don't remember much but being very small standing in
front of the giant counter andthatdistinct "smell" that the meat
market always had. I think they also had a little candy machine that
I used to frequent. The article brings backfond memories and it
sure is fun to see Grafton Growing!!
Give my best to Dave and Kelly and family!!
Take Care Gary -
Darcie (Komanetz) Gust <<< Thanks a million for caring and sharing
Darcie. For those unaware, Darcie was, in the words of my daughter
Kelly, "the best darn baby sitter in the world", then Kelly added, "she
would even clean the house and do the dishes when she was there."
Somehow, that doesn't surprise me. I remember watching her grandfather
Joe Komanetz when we worked in the Laboratory at the American Crystal
Sugar factory in Drayton. He too, always seemed to do more than was
expected of him. Aren't memories wonderful?
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Speaking of sugar here's a little More on the subject of SUGAR:
How much sugar do Americans really eat?
Not as much as reported. Using information from a 2001 report as
illustration, a general statement like "Americans consume more than 150
pounds of sugar in a year" is not only thoroughly misleading, it is
completely wrong. Such false assertions perpetuate the myth that
"Americans eat too much sugar." The fact is the average American
consumes no more than 1.6 ounces of sugar per day or less than 40 lbs.
annually.
The source of this 1999 report information is the Economic Research
Service [ERS] of the United States Department of Agriculture. ERS
statistics are purely economic numbers. By convention, economists use
the term consumption to describe the total supply of any product
available for all commercial uses during a specific period of time.
Economic consumption simply indicates the total weight of a product that
is used throughout a year. No matter the goods, economic consumption is
calculated by subtracting year-end inventory from the sum of the amount
of merchandise produced during the year + the stock-on-hand at the
beginning of the same year.
Ignoring the descriptive term "economic" and misrepresenting supply
numbers as human consumption is not only deceptive, it is dishonest. A
news release2 like "According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) data, sugar consumption in 1999 was 158 pounds per person - 30%
higher than in 1983." misleads the American consumer. Reporting economic
supply numbers as nutrition fact is as fictitious as equating gross
salary [total available supply] and take-home pay [human consumption].
Besides misrepresenting economic supply numbers as human intake, there
is a second factual error in this news release. This error is using the
word sugar to represent all sweeteners.
Sugar is only one component of the total sweetener supply. When
tabulated by ERS, total caloric sweeteners include all the corn syrups +
honey products + miscellaneous edible syrups, like sorghum, as well as
sugar. Total caloric sweeteners is cumbersome to say or write
repeatedly, thus the term sugars was adopted for convenience [note the s
on sugars]. Although the term sugars was coined to represent all caloric
sweeteners, some continue to write and talk about sugar [pure sucrose
from sugar cane and sugar beets] instead of sugars. This is more than
semantics. Continued misrepresentation of total caloric sweeteners
[sugars] as sugar [no s] is not only flawed but damages America's
hardworking farmers and the stability they bring to their local
economies.
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