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Saturday, December 3, 2005

Blog Globally, Act Locally…

by Frank Paynter on December 3, 2005

We will hold the second meeting of the West Waubesa Preservation Coalition, (which is fighting a high voltage power line through our neighborhood) this Sunday, Dec. 4, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Dunn Town Hall, 4156 County Rd. B, McFarland.  If you were at the last meeting, please read the minutes and see if you committed to doing something.  If you haven’t started yet, time is running out!  If you weren’t at the last meeting, please come Sunday night and get involved.

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Here is the agenda for Sunday: 
1.  Introductions
2.  Review agenda
3.  Reports by the people who took on tasks as to what they have accomplished.  These need to be very brief reports, like 1 – 5 min. maximum.
4.  Discuss our next steps, including getting a letter to the ATC and the Public Service Commission and the Governor (all one letter) signed by as many neighbors as possible.
5.  Set up a next meeting.
6.  Discuss whether we want to establish bylaws, elect officers and incorporate in the future.

Please talk to your neighbors and invite them to come to the meeting!  And if you or they haven’t completed a response sheet to ATC, please do that and mail it in as soon as possible.  See you on Sunday!   Response sheet can be downloaded here (476K MS Word file).

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Aw Shux…

by Frank Paynter on December 3, 2005

I got a link from the December 15th AARP Bulletin.  This may be my first and only unsolicited mainstream positive  recognition.  There I am, in the list, right below Ronni Bennett and not that far down from Millie Garfield.

Here’s what they said:

Frank Paynter’s Sandhill Trek (http://sandhill.typepad.com/sandhill_trek/)
is about life on the farm, dealing with the inevitable loss of beloved pets,
progressive politics, nature and other topics, rendered in sometimes lyrical
prose.

I like the phrase "sometimes lyrical prose."  I guess they missed the part where the mean son-of-a-bitch comes out and I rave and rage against the idiocy of a populace so dim-witted, deluded, or careless or greedy, so miserably callous and cold that they could elect the mass murdered from Crawford, Texas – Mr. Death Penalty himself – to not one but two terms in office.  Wait.  Maybe that’s the "progressive politics" part.

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