Peeping Around the Village

Hello again Greendale,

If you recall, last week I was commiserating about my broken furnace. It took two workers several hours and a lot of under the breath mumbling for it to be fixed. Or, so I thought! At around 3 a.m. the very next night, I woke up in the middle of the night and discovered that I could see my breath in the night air.

Obviously, the furnace job had not met my expectations.

I felt it should last more than 24 hours. Another call to the furnace folks and several hours and more mumbling later it was working again and has lasted two days now.

I hear that last week’s candidate forum was not well attended. How can we expect to know about our prospective community leaders if we don't show up to learn about the candidates? Sadly, I too missed the forum. Now, if someone had told me ahead of time that coffee and cookies were being served, I may have made a bigger effort to attend.

Apparently our elementary schools are over-flowing with students. This will probably mean that the district’s administrative offices, which are now housed at Highland View, will have to move to make room for classrooms. Luckily, the has found some empty space in a wood shop that would be the perfect place for a school BOARD. Ha-ha. Hopefully, this move won't be too “wrenching” for them and they will be able to “hammer” out some solutions to problems.

Now, here is something we all must make an effort to attend — there will be a public open house at the High School on April 7 regarding the proposed Wal-Mart plans. So, mark your calendars for sure.

Rumor has it that construction has begun on the Grange Avenue senior housing project near Southridge. Now, I drive past that area frequently and have yet to see any action. But, bear in mind that it takes seniors a little longer to get anything going.

I read a very disturbing crime report this week! Allegedly a very hungry gentleman became enraged when the folks at the Southrdige Mall McDonald's weren't able to fill his order for a 50-piece chicken McNugget meal. He raised quite a ruckus ending with his arrest for disorderly conduct. I wasn't even aware that there was such a thing as a 50-piece chicken McNugget meal. He must have been starving!  Now, I am not one to gloss over this kind of behavior, but I do feel his pain. I'm afraid that if Walgreen's should ever run out of yellow Peeps I'm not sure that I could contain myself.

Update on Gump's, the cat, condition following the dissembling of his man package. Happily he is recovering well and will be back to his old ways (biting, scratching and avoiding all human contact). He was weighed before and after his surgery and despite having no food 12 hours before and several hours after he still managed to gain a quarter of a pound during that period! He now weighs in at a whopping 7-1/2 pounds.

By the way, has anyone else noticed that the tourists that visit our little village have a really hard time locating the crosswalks on Broad Street? Obviously the signs we have kindly erected have not been sufficient. Perhaps the airport has some extra runway lights they might be willing to part with. I know someone who works there and would be glad to ask.

Until next week.