Todays Gazette is being brought to you, in part, by the hard working
folks at GMU. When you meet them working in our community. Thank them
for everything they do. After all, it's the right thing to do.
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The current temperature is 31 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 64/35
Normal H/L temp for this date is 38/21
It looks like we can expect more normal weather for the rest of the
week. Normally that means no-one knows for sure what the weather will
be, the rest of the week.
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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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The folks from GMU (Grafton Municipal Utilities) have been working on
cleaning the leaves, plastic bottles and discarded beer & pop cans out
of our communities catch basins and storm drains.
The giant truck mounted "vacuum cleaner" they use today, is a far cry
from a curved spade attached to a 12 foot handle. Using the spade was a
difficult process at best, so when we started we always made certain the
entire gutter was cleaned first. Then, with luck, and a early snowfall,
we wouldn't have to go back and clean them out all over again.
Nels Hanson was the one that taught me how to clean storm sewer drains.
As I remember it, Nels pulled up along side a drain with the old Ford
dump truck, leaned over toward me and said. "Now, you grab that long
handled spade from the back of the truck, take it over to the drain and
set it down. Then, take the pick that's laying by the long handle spade,
hook the storm grate with it, and pull it off. Then stick that long
handled spade down the hole and scrap out all that 'stuff' down there."
(I cleaned that up a bit for the kids and clergy)
From the seat of the old Ford truck, that sounded fairly simple.
However, it wasn't long after I dropped the spade in that catch basin
that I realized digging 'stuff' (cleaned up for the same reason) out of
storm drains with a bent spade is a lot like trying to tie your shoes
with mittens on. Before we finished the last drain that fall, I got
pretty handy with those long handled spades. I could, almost, take the
labels off the soup cans and separate the glass from the plastic all on
the way out of the hole. Or, so it seemed to me anyway.
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Have you noticed now that the election is over, most of the "coulda,
woulda, shoulda" folks are back at full strength.
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FOR SALE: A 1946 Jeep CJ. Call Les After 6 p.m. (I guess he's a late
sleeper) Should call soon,... the ad's been listed in the Walsh County
Record since 1986.
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Proof positive that advertising does work. Less than one day after
writing about The Sheraton Condos I received the following note. >>>>
Gee, Gary....I got all excited reading the blurb on the condos.....while
reading........"maybe we should move to Grafton!!!"....then the
clincher!!! Did they sell any?
Kermit, the condo hunter <<< I can't be absolutely sure Kermit. I'm not
even sure if they're still taking applications or not. Harvey does drop
into Granny's once in awhile, maybe I can find out more about the
project from him then.
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Does anyone remember saying? " I, being of sound mind and body
(usually), do hereby will to my sister, Holly, my bedroom window (for
unmentionable reasons) and the Honda to anyone that can handle it's
power."
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===== It's the right thing to do. =====
I believe that is Todd Morgans famous last words in this weeks Who's to
Say column. He suggests that "for the sake of fair play" "the powers
that be" should do the "gracious and polite thing" and request a recount
REGARDLESS of whether it's required by law or not. Todd finished his
"eloquent political dance" with, "It's the right thing to do.
What's that all about? Stopping at a stop sign in the middle of the
desert, is "the right thing to do? Why? Because "it's the law". If the
law says, there should be a recount, then without question, there should
be a recount. Why? Because it's the law. If, on the other hand, the law
"says" or, more precisely in this case, doesn't say it should be. Why
would one twist words to be anything other than what it is.
If in fact, if there are merchants on main street that are ADAMANTLY
opposed to the increase. Maybe "the powers that be" need to spend a bit
more time discussing the future of "our" community with those
individuals.
Whether a horse wins by a nose, a neck or his whole dad burn body, he
still wins the race. Or so it seems to me.
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Speaking of the election, we would like to share the following. >>>
Wanted to say Congratulations to my uncle Ernie on his win for county
commissioner. I think he will do a great job. He puts his heart into
everything he does. Denise <<< Thanks for caring and sharing Denise.
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We would like to welcome Al Kalka to the Gazette family.
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GOTTA GO WORK ON MY DASH
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"I may not always like what you tell me. I will, however, always
appreciate it." GLM
Write if you can, call if you can't, and, tell your loved ones they are,
before it's too late.
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