CHEERS
To the students in lake area marching bands for their efforts each week on home football fields, the long hours of practice that preceed them, the parents who arrange schedules to drop off and pick up participants – and the bands’ successes in recent competitions. So … three cheers plus another.
For the Camden County Commission’s promise to make sure the base elevation flood plain maps drawn up by FEMA are accurate. The hard part will be finding a way to pay for it.
To the OBFPD fire board, for getting a third member sworn in. The fire board has come a long way in the last year. Now it’s time to put the past behind it and focus on the future and the needs of the taxpayers who support the fire district.
And JEERS
To DNR’s inability to answer water quality questions, and it’s excuse: “We don’t have a hydrologist on staff.”
We had some questions about water flow on Lake of the Ozarks and how it relates to E. coli. DNR suggested we contact AmerenUE because DNR didn’t have a hydrologist that could talk us.
Perhaps it’s DNR’s fault that people all around the state continue to take jabs at Lake of the Ozarks about water quality. The lake is a dammed up river that begins in the wheatfields of Kansas and is fed by tributaries that traverse the Ozarks hillsides and farm fields. It is not a chlorinated swimming pool, nor is it a pristine mountain stream. it is what it is: a river dammed to create a reservoir.
To anyone who doesn’t take the time to stop to enjoy the fall colors beginning to unveil themselves all around the lake area. The golds and crimsons, oranges and reds, and even shades of brown won’t last long, folks, enjoy them while can, especially since some people think we’re in for both an early and a long winter. Was that a flock of geese honking overhead on its way down south?
