No New Recycling Site in Sight.

The Public Works Committee took no action on the proposed additional recycling drop-off center. Three of the four members spoke against the proposal to open a second site, staffed by volunteers, on CW&EP property just off River Street.

City Department of Engineering Director had told the Committee that the site would need to be enclosed with a chain link fence at a cost of around $2,500.

Committee Chair Bill Fortune said that the only complaint he has heard about the current site is the hours of operation. The site is open Thursday through Saturday from 8:30 to 4:30. Street Commissioner Tom Shelley said he feels the site, which also accepts brush and yard waste, will need to extend hours in the near future. Shelley was requested to see if the site stay open until 5:30 or 6 in the evening one day a week.

The three members who opposed the proposal, Fortune, Trish Burgi, and Charlie Bastin, voted for a mandatory charge for curbside recycling earlier in the year. That proposal was defeated by the full Council. Member H.J. Johnson favored the additional site and voted against the curbside proposal.

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin',

Some learnin’ just never goes away.

I reached to reset the trip meter on the dash of the car the other day, felt a tinge of guilt and fear. I realized that I had my arm stuck through the steering wheel.

Now with the new fangled power steerin’ on vehicles of today, there is little risk. But when I was learnin’ to maneuver a tractor ‘cross a plowed field, the one thing that was stressed to me by an obviously experienced farmer was ta never reach through the wheel. Hit a furrow just right and the steering wheel on that old John Deere spins like a pinwheel.

Now I’ve seen it happen, always glad that farmer knew his business. I still feel real bad for the first guy who learned that lesson.

I’m wonderin’ how many things we do without really bein’ aware of ‘xactly why we do ‘em. Just cause we were taught. I don’t suppose there’s much to fear ‘bout gettin’ a broken arm while drivin’ down the interstate, but I ain’t gonna chance it.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

Metcalf Auto Supply

Click and Clack Talk Cars

Dear Tom and Ray:

Unless you can give me an answer to my problem, I may need to sell my car on a cold morning in the dead of winter. I have a 1990 Nissan 240SX with a five-speed transmission. When I first start the car on cold mornings, the clutch acts like a normal clutch, but the stick shift is hard to move. After the car is driven a fairly short distance, the shifting becomes smoother, but the clutch becomes so stiff that I can hardly push it in. If I continue to drive the vehicle any distance, the clutch will eventually start slipping when I shift or try to pass another vehicle.

The service center here in town doesn’t have a clue. They just want to rebuild the clutch again. I have rebuilt the clutch twice in a year, and both times it was totally smoked as if I were riding the clutch. The master cylinder has been replaced, as well as the slave cylinder (twice), and the clutch dampener valve, which is now bypassed. Nothing has fixed the problem. Short of selling this car, do you have any suggestions? — Donalda

TOM: Why do we always have to carry such heavy burdens? If we don’t help you, you’re going to have to sell your car, right? You’ll lose thousands of dollars!

RAY: I’m going to suggest you go to a Nissan dealer, Donalda. This problem is obviously beyond the capabilities of your neighborhood mechanic. And as nice a guy as he may be, sooner or later you’re going to get tired of replacing cluthes.

TOM: He’s already tried a bunch of things. And if there is a defect or problem specific to the 1990 240SX, or if there’s something that your mechanic is doing wrong repeatedly, the dealer has the best chance of spotting it.