Narrow Streets Recommended.

The Public Works Committee voted 3-1 to recommend to the Council that streets in the Breckenwood 7th addition be allowed to be built at a width of twenty feet. Members Charlie Bastin, Lujene Clark, and Jim McPheeters voted for, Committee Chair Bill Fortune against.

City Director of Engineering Joe Butler acknowledged that according to a petition for annexation accepted by the Council, Bill Wilson, developer of Breckenwood, could surface the streets with only chip and seal. Wilson told the Committee he plans to surface the streets in the addition with asphalt. Butler pushed hard for the Committee to require street width of at least twenty-four feet. Street specifications are currently drawn up by the Engineering Department.

The development has utilized an ordinance, often referred to as the "Green Space" ordinance, passed in 1991 that allows the Council the ability to waive requirements for subdivisions if the size of lots is at least 29,000 square feet. Breckenwood was not required to have curb and gutters and chip and seal was allowed as a surface material. All recent streets have been paved with asphalt.

Got into a situation once. I ended up boardin’ a horse that was bein’ fought over by a couple gettin’ a divorce. Got a little attached to the animal over six or eight months. Offered to buy the horse, but no deal.

When the eventual owner came to pick up the spirited quarter horse, I knew gettin’ loaded in a trailer would be a problem. I figured that after tanglin’ with the horse for an hour or so the owner might reconsider my offer. I sat on the porch and watched the animal get pushed and shoved, nearly choked with a rope. I finally gave in and went down and calmed the animal and got it in the trailer. I could only hope the owner was payin’ attention.

There are some situations where ya just don’t have much choice.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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by Tom & Ray Magliozzi

Dear Tom and Ray:

I’m a registered nurse and I have a question that is somewhat medical in origin. The appendix is an organ that is believed to have once had a function but is now without purpose (except as an income generator for the surgeon who removes it).

And yet, there it is- a stubborn piece of our anatomy, refusing to succumb to the laws of evolution.

Is there a part in a car that has not evolved over time but continues to exist even though we don’t need it anymore?-Linda

TOM: Great question, Linda! The "part" that comes to mind is the parking lights.

RAY: Right. In the old, old days, when my brother still had a few brain cells left, cars were not that common. So when you parked yours at the side of the road, you left your "parking lights" on. That way, when Ichabod Crane came whizzing by in his buggy, he wouldn’t smash into you.

TOM: There’s also one other part that was starting to go the way of the parking lights but has recently had a reprieve: the cigarette lighter.

RAY: Apparently, fewer people are smokers these days, and many people decided they didn’t want cigarette lighters in their car.

TOM: So the manufacturers figured out that by slapping a plastic cover on the cigarette-lighter socket, they could save the cost of the lighter itself and brag about their "power ports." So that’s a part whose function has changed and evolved with time.

RAY: Sort of like my brother’s head. It was once believed to have some thinking function. But now we mainly use it as a hat rack.