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Posted on October 15 at 5:30 p.m.
This has been a long time coming ... indeed, for a while, it seemed like it would NEVER come. Congratulations to everyone who kept at it and finished the job! The next time I'm in Emporia, I will make sure to see this "jewel" in its finished form.
--Scott Rochat
Longmont, Colo.
Posted on July 3 at 8 p.m.
An interesting note to add: When I used to work in Garden City, it was legal to set off fireworks inside the city but NOT in the county. The rationale was that fireworks in the city could be easily monitored and limited to safe areas (such as driveways and parking lots) while fireworks in the county were harder to keep an eye on and had a good chance of causing major grass fires.
Scott Rochat
Longmont, CO
Posted on June 26 at 3:23 p.m.
Glad you enjoyed your stay in Emporia. This is the first time in six or seven years that I have missed the National Teachers Hall of Fame ceremony. Much as I would have liked to have gone, it makes a difference to live nine hours away with $3.83 gas! I'm sorry I didn't have the chance to talk with your incoming "class" of inductees, but please take my best wishes home with you.
Scott Rochat
Longmont, CO
Posted on June 25 at 4:09 a.m.
When I first saw the headline of this piece, I couldn't help thinking of things out here. In Colorado, shoveling snow is taken about as seriously as cutting grass ... failing to shovel the walk in front of your house, if it gets noticed, can draw a warning from the city with the implication of worse to come.
That said, most Colorado towns (including this one) complain about how the roads aren't cleared properly or swiftly after a snowstorm. I'm sure Emporia's snow removal could be improved ... but I also suspect that snow removal is one of those things that every city complains about, regardless of how much or how little is actually done.
Scott Rochat
Longmont, CO
Posted on June 6 at 5:19 p.m.
Keep up the good work, Kelley -- you've hit the high notes in more ways than one.
Posted on June 4 at 8:24 p.m.
Best wishes to everyone in dodging the bullet. It hasn't been so long since the Colorado county next to mine had seven tornadoes in one day; I'd just as soon see nobody else get plastered this season. God bless, folks.
Scott Rochat
Longmont, Colo.
Posted on June 3 at 2:07 p.m.
It may not be over yet. The Clinton camp is now saying the AP report is incorrect and that she won't be conceding tonight. I guess we'll see what happens.
Scott Rochat
Longmont, Colo.
Posted on June 2 at 6:34 p.m.
A good piece, Don. It's funny -- even in the early days of America, people were complaining about changing hair styles.
At one time, prominent men used to wear their hair in a "queue" -- i.e., a braid -- but the conservative Federalists wore them big and thick, while the Democratic-Republicans wore a thin braid when they wore one at all. In 1808, one barber bemoaned "this little Jim Madison, with a queue no bigger than a pipe-stem! Sir, it is enough to make a man foreswear his country!"
Posted on May 16 at 1:50 p.m.
Pollyanna, from what I recall, they're no more dangerous than rollerblades once a person gets used to them. But the "getting used to" part can be tricky. You're basically moving in a controlled swerve and a lot of people make some pretty BIG swerves when they're first learning to ride the thing. When I tried one out, I was glad that I was in the ESU gym where I had plenty of room and nothing in the way.
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Posted on December 19 at 5:36 p.m.
Lynn Johnston put it well, Gwen. "It's hard to look cool and stay warm at the same time." And that was about 25 years ago!
Good luck on the battle of the bundling. Having been the kid who had to wear a coat over his Halloween costume, I can tell you it's never appreciated at the time -- but you're right, sooner or later, he'll understand what you were trying to do. Granted, it may take until he has kids of his own, at which point you can just laugh and laugh ....
Scott Rochat
Longmont, CO
On Underdressed for killer cold