Shoveling the @%#$ walks
December 10, 2008 by RickM
Filed under Neighborhood Discussion
Of course with all the snow fall over the last week or so the subject of shoveling the @%#$ sidewalks has come up a few times. And at some point it turns to the sidewalks left unshoveled.
I’ve been reluctant to touch on this as, well… we don’t happen to have a sidewalk out front so don’t share this same burden as some of our neighborly brethren. I can though relate in that I too hate shoveling. We don’t have a snow blower but do have a long, morphing drive way that gets longer and wider with each winter’s snow. By late February it lengthens to nearly a mile.
Meeting Minutes 12/08/08
December 10, 2008 by RickM
Filed under Meeting notes
It was an icy bad-weather evening last night. And the bad weather not-withstanding we had thirty one people join us including a bunch of new neighbors. We met some new neighbors from Central and some new neighbors from Emerson. Not yet really well represented are Wisconsin Ave. and Milwaukee Ave. If you know of anyone on those streets it would great to have those areas represented.
Sgt. Northrop from the Beloit PD joined us. We’d forwarded to him a raft of questions and incidents we’d hoped to talk about. Frankly I figured we’d likely go about half an hour > forty five minutes and have time for other agenda as well. It would seem though we tapped into something a lot of people wanted to talk about. The exchanged showed no sign of let up for the full hour and a half we had. It could have likely continued if we’d not called time. It was a very positive, supportive exchange which I was particularly glad about. Very light on the pissing & moaning. Heavy on the what-can-we-do support. Lots of questions. Lots of good background information. Lots of actionable things we could take home with us which was great! Frankly there was too much for me to try and recount here. If you missed it we’ll most likely touch on this again in some form again.
