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March 2010
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Community Blogs
Village Spillage is an opinion blog about Whitefish Bay and the surrounding areas. It focuses on Village Government, elections, Silver Spring, and many other topics that aren't covered in the media.
Kevin Buckley serves as a Trustee for the Village of Whitefish Bay. The commentary within does not represent the official position of the Board.
Bonds, Ice Rink Skate Date, Bay Ball, etc.
First up, the highlight of yesterday's Trustee meeting was that WFB participated in a sale of bonds. One was a re-funding of higher-rate bonds to lower, saving the Village $335k at a paltry 2.7% interest rate, near the 42-year low for rates. Amazing.
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The Civic Foundation is hosting a new event in 2010 .. the First Annual Skate Date at Cahill Ice Rink this Saturday, Jan. 23, starting at 4pm.
From 5-6pm, the First Annual WFB Broom Ball Bowl will commence. (Ok, I made that up. But there will be broom ball games at 5pm.)
The Civic Foundation will provide brooms & ball as well as hot water and hot chocolate mix. Bowls, spoons, and napkins will also be available for residents who bring their own pot of chili to eat. (Which reminds me, if you've ever wanted to make home-made "Real Chili" here's a link to a few recipes -- we've made #2 several times. It's not exactly Real Chili, but it's close enough.)
Hopefully, the ice rink will stay frozen for this new Civic Foundation event.
Here's the Facebook event link, and please join the Civic Foundation Group, if you're a Facebook fan.
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Do you use the Whitefish Bay Library?
The Library Board wants your input on their long-range plan. Click here to take a moment and fill their survey.
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Finally, Bay Ball is going to happen this year on Friday June 4th at the new Harley Museum.
Pulling off the Bay Ball takes a load of volunteers. If you could help out with publicity, raffles, logistics, baskets, reservations .. whatever, please drop an email to one of these co-chairs:
Joe & Lori Kampschroer: lkamp@att.net
Larry & Rega Plaster: regap@sbcglobal.net
Michael Pyter & Mary Beth Jacobs: mjacobs10@wi.rr.com
Gee Kev....a month goes by with nothing to report on?? Are things that boring in WFB or am I your only reader.
Kevin, did the "Powers That Be" tell you to cool down your Blog? I know you were getting very close to some of those said Power's piggy banks...Don't let them rattle you, you are the voice of the people and we need your insight on the local going on's of the Village Board. Your sabbatical is now over, we expect to see a post next week.
38 days and counting. Someone should wake up Rip Van Buckley.....
38 days and counting.......someone please wake up Rip Van Buckley
The story of Rip Van Buckley is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. Rip Van Buckley, a villager of Dutch descent, lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect, he is loved by all but his wife.
One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. There he encounters strangely dressed men, rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew, who are playing nine-pins. After drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes and returns to his village, where he finds twenty years have passed. He finds out that his wife has died and that his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he proclaims himself a loyal subject of King George III, not knowing that the American Revolution has taken place.
An old local recognizes him, however, and Rip's now grown daughter takes him in. Rip resumes his habitual idleness, and his tale is solemnly believed by the old Dutch settlers, with certain hen-pecked husbands wishing they shared Rip's good luck.
Poor Kevin! Sounds like him to a T!!! Maybe he went on a 38 day bender! Hey Brachium keep it comin, you're alot more clever and creative than this bog's author.....he just repeats the same garbage anyone could read off the Village Hall bulletin board.
40 Days and still waiting...................
Where's Kevin? is a series of children's books created by British illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things at a given location. Readers are challenged to find a character named Kevin hidden in the group.
FUN FACTS:
In the early 1990s Quaker Life Cereal carried various "Where's Kevin" scenes on the back of the boxes along with collector's cards, toys and send-away prizes.
Also, in the early and mid 1990s, "Where's Kevin" was turned into a Sunday newspaper comic/puzzle, distributed by King Features Syndicate. The comics were also released in book form in the US.
I think we may find him hiding under Katie Pritchard's size 10 shoe!
You win the prize Metalman304! That was the correct answer. Your choice of prizes are: an all expensed paid trip to Kenya to visit with Obama's brother or a trip to Hawaii to find Obama's birth certificate. The choice is yours.
Thanx Brach.... I choose Hawaii, but I may be there awhile!! BTW......46 days and still no Kevin. Maybe JS Online should select someone to replace him that actually has an original thought or opinion
I see Gordy and his bank of aliases is now operating here.
- Pre-Spring Cleaning
- Bonds, Ice Rink Skate Date, Bay Ball, etc.
- WFB Grab Bag 2010: Trick or Treat & Silver Spring items
- Top 5 WFB Stories of 2009
- Trustee Meeting 12/21 - City Market
- YOUR Whitefish Bay Civic Foundation..
- Take the Village Pledge.. Silver Spring
- WFB Trustee Meeting 12/7
- Some day the people of this Village will have to face El Guapo!
- New kids on the block.. (Silver Spring)
Tags: Trustees : Village Board : Whitefish Bay Civic Foundation
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