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Sauk Centre JournalWeather updated each hour Thursday, May 8, 2008. This post s a day late. No excuse, but I've got an explanation of sorts. This has been a crazy week for me. I wrote about what's been happening in another blog:
Ash Street isn't the only place in Sauk Centre that's been getting refurbished. 12th Street South got new power poles this week.
The Ash Street Project is still a preoccupation for me. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that around the first week in June, I'll be able to take photos of the project from my front stoop.
Now that I'm back i
Starting work on the north end of South Ash, leaving the south part until after school is out for the summer probably has something to do with that gymkhana of cars and assorted vehicles that pours out of the high school parking lot every day. Sunday, May 4, 2008. I've been out of town since Friday. And, since I live on Ash Street South in Sauk Centre, I'm a bit preoccupied with the Ash Street Project. That explains why there's nothing by photos of Ash Street to show today.
Now that I'm back in town, I hope to get around a little and see what's been going on. See you Wednesday night. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. The Ash Street Project started today. They got the street torn up from South 8th to Sinclair Lewis Avenue. This is going to be a very interesting summer. (My webcam on Sauk Centre's south side, at the corner of Ash and 9th Street South, should a fine view of some of the Ash Street Project's work - when it gets down here. Meanwhile, I'm hoping for hummingbirds.)
That last picture, the one with the caption that starts, "Won't be long," Shows part of our yard. Some people have lawns: we have a yard. Those three trees that the red van is hiding behind? A photo of them was used by the City of Sauk Centre to illustrate how some trees would have to be removed. That was when I realized that I didn't have much of a chance of negotiating my way into keeping them. Apparently they keep people driving on Ash from seeing vehicles on the cross street. Okay, I can see that, sort of. I'm going to miss the shade, though, on summer afternoons.
Not that the Ash Street Project is the only thing going on in town.
And, the United Methodist Church addition, near the Ding Dong Cafe, is moving along. |
I'm not lazy:
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Sunday, April 27, 2008. The school referendum passed, by quite a margin this week. The Ash Street Project starts next week.
A crew from Sauk Centre Public Utilities was here ten days ago, getting an idea of where the sewer line for our house went.
When they were done, the Minnesotan phrase, "it could be worse" pretty well summed up the situation. The line apparently was laid before sewer service extended beyond 9th Street. The thing heads north, then northwest: under two trees and a bush we were hoping to save. I'm pretty sure people on Ash are having similar experiences. One of my webcams,
"Small Town America: Central Minnesota"
"Minnesota doesn't have a climate: It has weather." Our spring showers closed Interstate Highway 94 from Osakis to Fargo for a while, yesterday.
I heard someone say that wooly mammoths would be heading into our region next week, but I think he was kidding.
Yesterday's snow is something I'm glad I didn't have to drive through, but it was just about ideal for snowballs or snowmen. I made a small snowman, about nine or ten inches tall, while grilling lunch yesterday.
There's already quite a bit of spring-green grass showing through the snow. Maybe we'll get a reasonable facsimile of summer, yet. Wednesday, April 24, 2008. This has been a beautiful, warm, sunny day. There are more colored marks and little flags on and around Ash Street, a reminder of what's coming after school lets out for the summer. And, there's more about the school referendum vote in the Sauk Centre Herald. Including a passionate letter to the editor or two. I also read that a sort of committee of 10th, 11th, and 12th graders from the school painted a mural on a wall of the bus garage. I haven't seen it - the mural, that is - but I'll try to get a photo. This is a very short entry, I see. What can I say? I've been distracted. That will change, like everything else in this mutable cosmos. Sunday, April 20, 2008. What with one thing and another (Through One Dad's Eye gives a little detail), I'm at the end of Sunday, and still don't have any photos ready. Ash Street South has more marks painted on it now: I think there's a very good chance that they'll get this project started shortly after school ends in May. Deacon Kaas helped celebrate Mass at Our Lady of the Angels church this Sunday - with a walker. He explained that his knee had gotten twisted again, and a muscle was spasming. Doesn't sound pleasant, but he's getting around pretty well. I'm pretty sure that isn't all that happened, but it's all I can think of at the moment. If I think of more, tomorrow, I'll be back. If not, I'll be back Wednesday: whether I've got anything to say, or not. Wednesday, April 16, 2008. You may have expected some photos to go with this entry. So did I. Maybe later. Meanwhile, I got a call from somebody with Sauk Centre utilities. The other day, they had a crew out here with a crawler and a camera, getting up close and personal with the sewer. Turns out, the sewer arrangement for this house is a little odd. Their best guess is that after in goes out the west side of the house, it heads north to ninth, then on into the Ash street sewer. They want to do a little work, which will get done tomorrow morning, to give them a better picture of what's going on down there. It involves putting a sort of tape in our sewage pipe, and having a crew outside play 'find the signal.' Should be interesting. I also learned that they'll probably doing some core sampling at the south end of this block. That's my phrase, not what I was told. It seems that there may be granite down there. One of our neighbors is not going to be happy about that. With this Ash Street Project coming, I really feel sympathy for people on Ash who have put special effort into fixing up their front yards. Being a relatively small town doesn't deprive Sauk Centre of experiencing today's problems. There's drug and gang information meeting coming up Tuesday, April 22, 7 p.m. at the Sauk Centre High School Auditorium.. The Sauk Herald has more information about it. I suppose, as a responsible homeowner, I ought to go. Earlier Sauk Centre Journal entries are in the Sauk Centre Journal Archive. The idea, when I started this page, was to have a little journal, where I recorded events as they happen here in Sauk Centre. It grew. Above, you'll find this Sauk Centre journal. I update it twice a week. Brian H. Gill, Webmaster, Brendan.s Island |
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