Some of you all may have noticed that I've been kind of quiet lately. Truth is we have been busy preparing for a short vacation in the "Sunshine State" mostly to see & visit with family that lives down this way. It's been about 10 years since we were last here.
The ville has been kind of quiet with not much new news. Even the last council meeting was pretty much old business with items that have been discussed before and are still on the table. Sludge is still being hauled out of the sewage plant and they are negotiating with the new owners of Earth Tech to help pay for the clean up. One question came to mine when reading the newspaper accounts on that subject. Who is responsible in overseeing that the provisions with Earth Tech is adhered to? As I mentioned before the ball was dropped somewhere along the line. They are dealing with it now but from what I can see no one is owning up to allowing this mess to happen in the first place. I don't want to hang anyone but I do think it would be the mature thing for someone to say "hey, we screwed up. I'm sorry that it happened but we are taking care of it now".
Also at the last meeting the new cruisers for the WPD are on hold until the financial details can be taken care of. Seems no one got any figures to the Financial Officer. As I said, pretty much business as usual. It was in the ER yesterday we are going to get some new stop signs and directional signs for one way streets. Might be a good idea to put up some speed limit signs on the streets around the school areas. Maybe not everyone is cognizant of the fact that the speed limit is 25 mph on the majority of our village streets. Maybe some new, bright caution signs would nice too. Hopefully they can fit it in the budget.
In the meantime Mrs. Nib & I are on the west coast of Florida for a few days. We took off from Pittsburgh International in pouring rain and cool temperatures yesterday and landed in bright sunshine & 80 degree temperatures. One of the first things that got my attention was everything is summer green down here. It doesn't even look like fall and I was told it never does. Our piece of God's country at home in the tri-state area is presently awash in vibrant colors of red, yellows and orange. Gas prices look to be pretty much the same here that we got in Ohio. Florida is a nice place to visit but it's not home. I'm not a cold weather fan but nothing beats the beauty of fall in the Ohio Valley.
I'll try to keep up with any comments and discussions while we're here if I can find an Internet connection. In the mean time we're just going to lay back with family, sun, sand and maybe a little Jimmy Beam!
See ya next week...
ole nib
4 comments:
Enjoy you visit to the Sunshine State- we will hold down the fort until you get back !
Nib:
Have a great vacation. There is nothing better than being with family. Oh, and Jimmy Beam
You probably shouldn't announce on here when you're going to be out of town on vacation unless you have someone house sitting!
Had that taken care of. Thanks anyway. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but even I wouldn't do something like that.
nib
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