In other local news …
… Tracy Baker, the county clerk to whom I have to write automobile registration checks every year, dagnabbit, looks like he actually will be recalled because of his office affair. Good. The slimeball should never have been reelected in 2002 in the first place, except that all it takes to get a vote here in this county is a bit “(R)” next to your name. Given that he’s ignored requests by both the County Commissioners, and the local GOP, to step down, here’s hoping that the public finally gets the message.
… the residents of Brighton, fearful of the Grim Reaper, are fighting the building of a crematorium “next to” a new recreation center (“next to” in this case meaning a couple of hundred yards away). “We just built that rec center,” said a former city councilman who is leading the opposition. “I just don’t want to see any smoke rolling out. Don’t want my grandchildren to look and see this is a place we burn people.” Concerned neighbors gathered signatures on a petition, dropped them off at City Hall, noted that the sun was sinking low, and quickly scurried home before the vampires and werewolves began to prowl the streets of the benighted town.
Having grown up in Brighton I can understand the consternation. The rec center is surrounded by residential areas on three sides. Putting a crematorium in that vicinity is likely to drop some property values. Would you want a crematorium down the street from your house? I can think of a number of sites better suited (further northwest perhaps in the old GW complex.)
Yeah…The former GW plant would be a good area.
Though, I did have an amusing thought when I read this:
An Aerobics’ class exercising to the song “it’s raining men”…and you know, it probably is.
Pardon me, while I clean the snot-laced coffee off of my monitor screen. Ahem.