Shown here is the ville's original DQ. This is a picture of a picture captured from the Legend's video at the Elks Riverside Reunion this past week. You're showing your age if you remember it looking like that. It was located where the Oriental restaurant is today. This picture was taken before Route 7 was started. Although fuzzy you can see the hillside across the street. I got excited with a flood of memories of my youth when I saw this picture.
We'll have more on the Reunion later on. I'm trying to remember how I got the collage pictures reduced from mega bytes to kilo bytes. When I did it Friday I thought "that was easy to remember" and guess what? I was ready to reduce my 'puter to rubble with a sledge hammer yesterday. It's frustrating when you learn an easy step or two and then try to repeat it only to find out you're the dummy those books were written for. Got lots of pictures to share. Just got to rake through the gray matter to find that needle. Google allows all the pictures you want but there are restrictions on the size.
Talked to the Mayor Saturday evening. He's back from vacation & ready to get back into action. Joe told me he was upset with the bashing he got with the Tree Board public meeting. Originally he was going to postpone that meeting until after he got back from vacation but at the request of one former TB member and one of the Council members he set it up earlier advising both parties that he would not be there. His long planned vacation required that he get on the road to the Cleveland airport to be there to adhere with Homeland Security requirements for people flying. They want flying customers at the airport at least two hours before their flight time. Sorry for the bashing Joe. I thought you were flying out of Pittsburgh but with the prices I know full well and understand why it was Cleveland. It is also understandable why you didn't make the meeting.
A while back Councilman Tony Cataldo announced that with the lack of receiving any stimulus money village officials were looking into getting a loan using the permissive tax receipts as collateral for the the loan. That loan was going to be used to get some much needed paving done in the ville. Following up on that last week Fiscal Officer Dale Davis told me that they are now looking into a possible low interest loan through a Dept. of Agricultural. Those loans are much better on interest rates compared to the commercial rates available. That iron is still in the fire. Primary concern is the hazardous curves on 10th St. Ext. up near the cemetery entrance. Village officials are hoping to get funds to correct the damage done by hillside run off and repave the surface. Work needs done on the storm sewers up there first.
There's a new Wellsville blog up and running. Charles Franklin and a host of friends got it together and it has a lot of potential. Check it out at http://www.pow-peopleofwellsvilleohio.blogspot.com/.
Don't forget the Chamber-of-Commerce auction next Saturday at the Alumni Center. Connie Bauer advises they are still accepting donations. New Wellsville Chamber member Henry Nemenz, owner of Save-A-Lot, recently made some very generous donations to the cause. The missus & I would really love to get that free lodging at the two-bedroom condo in Florida. Then there is all the Steeler stuff. All proceeds from the auction is going for the benefit of the ville. Primary on the list is the gazebo renovation. After supplies are paid for that project any funds left over will go to future improvements in town. You gotta hand it to the Chamber members. With the trade unions donating all the labor and the generous donations to cover the costs of supplies you know the job is going to be done right and it is saving us tax payers a huge chunk of money.
Seems County Commissioner Jim Hoppel and Lisbon's Landmark Foundation are butting heads on fixing the courthouse clock. The foundation has been raising money to get the clock repaired using new parts for the machinery that makes the clock work. Hoppel has found someone that repairs antique clocks using the original parts. A recent Tom Giambroni article noted Hoppel would like to go that route, preserving the historical integrity of the clock. That clock dates back to 1873 and a lot of the original parts have since been replaced. It hasn't worked much in the past two decades. I have to side with the foundation on this one. If the portion of the clock that people see is preserved such as the face & the hands, what difference does it make? The question should be what is going to last over time and at what cost.
The state budget woes are once again coming back to slap us in the face. It was announced last week that Local Government Funds for the ville will be cut nearly $13,000 this year. It was attributed to the fact that tax collections are down compared to last year. It just doesn't seem to stop.
Eric Dillard was denied a new trial at a motions hearing last week. Dillard was found guilty of murder and his lawyers filed a motion to have that conviction thrown out or have a new trial based on alleged new evidence. The judge ruled that the jury had sufficient evidence at the original trial for that conviction. A new sentencing date will be set. Dillard faces a possible life sentence for those convictions.
The Wellsville Library still has their summer programs going for our area youth. Every Tuesday through the end of the month they have a special activity scheduled at 10 A.M. for the kids. These activities are conducted by other area librarians. Tomorrow's program is called "Get Creative in the Old West". It's a free and fun learning event about the old west.
The state budget cuts were shot down in the General Assembly and now are back in committee hearings. Right now the state is operating on a temporary budget through July 7. The Ohio Library Council said the legislators are apparently listening to their constituents in voting Strickland's proposed budget down. We're still hoping that whatever they come up with it won't additionally effect public library funding.
Got a new business in the ville. It's a business within a business. Janet Dunlap, a realtor for Howard Hanna, set up shop in Andy Beech's Law Office at 611 Main St. I know we got other realtors in town but I think this is the only one with an established office. You can call Dunlap at 330-843-2338 or 385-4321, Ext. 335, for all you real estate needs. Wonder why Randy didn't call me on this?
Okay, I'm going back to trying to figure out my picture problem. My better half hid the sledge hammer!
ole nib
We'll have more on the Reunion later on. I'm trying to remember how I got the collage pictures reduced from mega bytes to kilo bytes. When I did it Friday I thought "that was easy to remember" and guess what? I was ready to reduce my 'puter to rubble with a sledge hammer yesterday. It's frustrating when you learn an easy step or two and then try to repeat it only to find out you're the dummy those books were written for. Got lots of pictures to share. Just got to rake through the gray matter to find that needle. Google allows all the pictures you want but there are restrictions on the size.
Talked to the Mayor Saturday evening. He's back from vacation & ready to get back into action. Joe told me he was upset with the bashing he got with the Tree Board public meeting. Originally he was going to postpone that meeting until after he got back from vacation but at the request of one former TB member and one of the Council members he set it up earlier advising both parties that he would not be there. His long planned vacation required that he get on the road to the Cleveland airport to be there to adhere with Homeland Security requirements for people flying. They want flying customers at the airport at least two hours before their flight time. Sorry for the bashing Joe. I thought you were flying out of Pittsburgh but with the prices I know full well and understand why it was Cleveland. It is also understandable why you didn't make the meeting.
A while back Councilman Tony Cataldo announced that with the lack of receiving any stimulus money village officials were looking into getting a loan using the permissive tax receipts as collateral for the the loan. That loan was going to be used to get some much needed paving done in the ville. Following up on that last week Fiscal Officer Dale Davis told me that they are now looking into a possible low interest loan through a Dept. of Agricultural. Those loans are much better on interest rates compared to the commercial rates available. That iron is still in the fire. Primary concern is the hazardous curves on 10th St. Ext. up near the cemetery entrance. Village officials are hoping to get funds to correct the damage done by hillside run off and repave the surface. Work needs done on the storm sewers up there first.
There's a new Wellsville blog up and running. Charles Franklin and a host of friends got it together and it has a lot of potential. Check it out at http://www.pow-peopleofwellsvilleohio.blogspot.com/.
Don't forget the Chamber-of-Commerce auction next Saturday at the Alumni Center. Connie Bauer advises they are still accepting donations. New Wellsville Chamber member Henry Nemenz, owner of Save-A-Lot, recently made some very generous donations to the cause. The missus & I would really love to get that free lodging at the two-bedroom condo in Florida. Then there is all the Steeler stuff. All proceeds from the auction is going for the benefit of the ville. Primary on the list is the gazebo renovation. After supplies are paid for that project any funds left over will go to future improvements in town. You gotta hand it to the Chamber members. With the trade unions donating all the labor and the generous donations to cover the costs of supplies you know the job is going to be done right and it is saving us tax payers a huge chunk of money.
Seems County Commissioner Jim Hoppel and Lisbon's Landmark Foundation are butting heads on fixing the courthouse clock. The foundation has been raising money to get the clock repaired using new parts for the machinery that makes the clock work. Hoppel has found someone that repairs antique clocks using the original parts. A recent Tom Giambroni article noted Hoppel would like to go that route, preserving the historical integrity of the clock. That clock dates back to 1873 and a lot of the original parts have since been replaced. It hasn't worked much in the past two decades. I have to side with the foundation on this one. If the portion of the clock that people see is preserved such as the face & the hands, what difference does it make? The question should be what is going to last over time and at what cost.
The state budget woes are once again coming back to slap us in the face. It was announced last week that Local Government Funds for the ville will be cut nearly $13,000 this year. It was attributed to the fact that tax collections are down compared to last year. It just doesn't seem to stop.
Eric Dillard was denied a new trial at a motions hearing last week. Dillard was found guilty of murder and his lawyers filed a motion to have that conviction thrown out or have a new trial based on alleged new evidence. The judge ruled that the jury had sufficient evidence at the original trial for that conviction. A new sentencing date will be set. Dillard faces a possible life sentence for those convictions.
The Wellsville Library still has their summer programs going for our area youth. Every Tuesday through the end of the month they have a special activity scheduled at 10 A.M. for the kids. These activities are conducted by other area librarians. Tomorrow's program is called "Get Creative in the Old West". It's a free and fun learning event about the old west.
The state budget cuts were shot down in the General Assembly and now are back in committee hearings. Right now the state is operating on a temporary budget through July 7. The Ohio Library Council said the legislators are apparently listening to their constituents in voting Strickland's proposed budget down. We're still hoping that whatever they come up with it won't additionally effect public library funding.
Got a new business in the ville. It's a business within a business. Janet Dunlap, a realtor for Howard Hanna, set up shop in Andy Beech's Law Office at 611 Main St. I know we got other realtors in town but I think this is the only one with an established office. You can call Dunlap at 330-843-2338 or 385-4321, Ext. 335, for all you real estate needs. Wonder why Randy didn't call me on this?
Okay, I'm going back to trying to figure out my picture problem. My better half hid the sledge hammer!
ole nib
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