Today's Feature
Committee Discusses Tiny Motorcycles.

The Public Safety Committee discussed safety issues involving miniature motorcycles at the meeting Monday evening. Committee Chair Mike Harris asked for the item to be added to the agenda to gather information and opinions from the committee members, Police and Fire officers.

A sample ordinance from St. Peters, MO was presented at the meeting and the committee agreed to look into the matter further. According to Police Sgt. Doug Dickey there are a number of misconceptions about the tiny motorcycles. One common misconception is that no license is needed to drive the vehicles. Dickey clarified that a driver’s license is required in order to operate the motorcycles. Dickey added that the vehicles themselves do not need to be licensed so long as they are compliant with three rules; they can not go faster than 30 mph, the engines are less than 50 CCs, and they are under 2 horsepower.

Police Chief Dennis Veach told the committee that there had been less accidents involving the vehicles than he had anticipated. Veach said due to the size and lack of visibility the cycles are a high risk for accidents.

Stench Report:
Monday,
08/15/05

No Stench Detected

Talked to a guy who says he’s got a couple hunderd acres of soybeans in the ground. The rain over the last few days may have just saved the crop accordin’ to him.

My dad used ta use opportunities like that to recite onea his favorites.

"Couldn’t have done it better if you’d had your hand on the faucet," he tell farmer friends.

‘Course I’ve also heard that some corn crops are already too far gone to save. Bein’ chopped up for silage. Pastures have been hit hard enough that a lotta hay is bein’ fed this summer.

From what I understand the cattle aren’t likin’ it much more than the farmers. They’re longin’ for some of that fresh grown grass they’re use to this time a year. But then the grass is always greener.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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• "For each child, I keep an under-bed storage box that gets filled throughout the year with items like classroom art, ticket stubs and special letters from the grandparents. When we have time throughout the year, we might scrapbook a page or two, but the real fun comes at the end of the year, when we take a whole day to go through the box and reflect on the year. Some items we keep, some get thrown away, but all are special because we have fun remembering the year. I thought I would share this tip in the summer, so your readers could start their own box and have stuff to go through at the end of the year." — W.L. in Missouri