Door to Door Measurement.

The City Council approved the recommendation last week of the Public Safety Committee to use the main entrances as the reference point to measure the required 300 foot distance between a establishment selling alcoholic beverages and a church, school, or hospital. Council members Jackie Boyer and Ronnie Wells voted against the measure. Member McPheeters was absent.

Wells had spoke in favor of the more restrictive reference point of property lines. He had told the Council that the ordinance as passed would still allow sales of alcohol across the street from almost any school play ground due to the location of main entrances.

The property line proposal had been recommended by the past Public Safety Committee before the April election and was defeated by the Council.

The Public Safety Committee has begun to discuss an ordinance that would deal with any establishments that now fall within the 300 foot limit that will be "grandfathered" or allowed to continue to operate. The Committee has discussed allowing those to continue to operate unless the business stops alcoholic sales for a year.

Ya gotta remember to always hold a roman candle out to your side.

Don’t light firecrackers and then throw ‘em.

Don’t drop burnt sparklers on the ground where you’ll step on ‘em with your bare feet.

Don’t aim bottle rockets at your neighbor., or their dog. (I’m guessin’ most kids these days don’t have any idea why a bottle rocket is called what it is. Not many RC bottles around these days that would work.)

Don’t stick a lit punk in your pocket where ya keep your firecrackers.

Don’t pick up a firecracker if it doesn’t go off.

No, these are safety tips, they are lessons learned the hard way by myself and various partners in the experience. Ouch.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Workman's Loan

The Super Handyman

by Al Carrell & Kelly Carrell

Dear Al: My gutters got clogged and overflowed, causing a huge mess in the front courtyard of my home. They looked clean when I last serviced them, but I had missed a clog that was inside a downspout. I found that the fastest way to remove downspout clogs is to stick your garden hose down into it and force out the clog with the water pressure. If it won’t unclog from the top, try it from the bottom. It worked great for me.

Dear Al & Kelly: The old, removable wallpaper in my young son’s room was ugly but I didn’t want to paper over it. I ended up painting it. First I used a primer and then two coats of plain beige paint. My son is allowed to draw anything anywhere he chooses on the walls. When they get too busy or he gets older, it will be easy to pull off the removable wallpaper for the next scheme.

A SUPER HINT-If you have a box full of wood screws for something like a new deck you’re building, pour a little liquid hand soap over the screws, and they will practically put themselves into the wood.

Dear Carrells: I have been redoing my basement to turn it into a study. A lot of the work I’ve done had some ripping and cutting, and I needed a longer workbench to help support the long materials. I didn’t have any type of appropriate table, so I used the only thing around that was available, the family ironing board. It was the perfect height and long to handle the material.