Regardless of what you think about the merits of a war with Iraq, you've got to admit that it's doing a number on gasoline prices. Yes, I know there are a lot of factors that go into determining how much gas costs, but as war tensions go up and d
Regardless of what you think about the merits of a war with Iraq, youâve got to admit that itâs doing a number on gasoline prices. Yes, I know there are a lot of factors that go into determining how much gas costs, but as war tensions go up and down, so do the prices at the pump.
This week, the price was $1.76 for a gallon of regular, which is the highest itâs been in years, and not too many people are betting against $2 a gallon before all is said and done. But before you go reaching for the Pepto Bismol, consider this: Pepto Bismol will run you about $123 a gallon. And while youâre running to the store on your $1.76 gallon of gas, take a look at some of the things on your shopping list: Diet Snapple will cost you $10.32 a gallon; Lipton Ice Tea, $9.52 a gallon; Gatorade, $10.17 a gallon; bottled water, $21.19 a gallon; and Scope, $84.48 a gallon. Thatâs enough to make you want to slam on the brakes. By the way, brake fluid is $33.60 a gallon.
No matter where you were in Newtown Monday morning, it seemed there was a library volunteer handing out free paperback books. The books werenât leftovers from the last fallâs book sale; they were brand new copies of Howard Fastâs April Morning. The distribution signaled the beginning of Newtown Reads, a program to encourage reading and community spirit. Anyone who wants a copy can pick one up at the library. The only rule is to read it and pass it on.
It seems the Great Backyard Bird Count just keeps on going and going. Fred Samoskevich of Rail Tree Hill Road in Woodbury called The Bee on Monday morning to report seeing a Carolina wren at his feeders. âIâve lived in Connecticut 60 years and never seen one. Then last weekend I looked out my window and said, âWhoa, What was that?â You couldnât miss him. A fat little brown bird with a big white stripe over his eye,â Mr Samoskevich said, adding that over a couple of days he saw two Carolina wrens at once, both pecking at the suet. âObviously, theyâre moving around a lot,â he added, delighted he was able to identify a rare bird. How suet it is!
Word has it that Democratic Town Committee Chairman Earl Smith celebrated a birthday recently. When a cake was brought to a recent meeting everyone started singing happy birthday, including Mr Smith. I guess he didnât realize the cake was for him.
Everyone, get out your dancing shoes for Saturday, March 15, at 7 pm, at the Fireside Inn for the Fourth Annual St Patrickâs Day Newtown Youth Services Dinner Dance and Auction. Souled Out will again be there to entertain this year. Tickets are $40 per person. Call Bob Tendler Real Estate at 426-5679 or Newtown Youth Services, 270-4335.
Janet Falkenthal is organizing a local chapter of the Red Hat Society. Thatâs a nationwide group for women over 50 who are supposed to wear purple dresses and red hats (after a lifetime of following the rules and pleasing others, these women figure theyâve earned the right to dress any way they want to and have a little fun). Janet says her chapter will be called Newtownâs Ready To Romp. Stay tuned.
Rev Gregory Wismar was really excited when he stopped by to announce the birth of his twin grandchildren ââ Emily Ann and Jacob Christopher ââ born January 22 to his daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Mark Dace, in Alexandria, Va. Emily Ann is the seventh generation Emily in the family to bear the name (Sarah is Sarah Emily) and will be the seventh to inherit the familyâs historic Emily hope chest.
Sarah also is the fourth in her group of five close friends from Newtown High School Class of 1990 to have twins. Kirsten Krell has twin boys, Sarah Kenyon has a boy and a girl, and Amy Sugden had twin boys a year ago. What does that portend for their fifth friend, Erica Krasnickas?
Whoever turned the heat up at Canaan House Tuesday night sent a pretty clear message to Mother Nature and Old Man Winter that enough is enough. It was so hot in the Board of Education conference room that a fan was being used to circulate the hot air. The saunalike temperatures did not move the meeting along any quicker, however.
School board chairman Elaine McClure was auctioning the agenda items of last night as she stated âgoing once, going twice, on to transfers.â Too bad there wasnât any money involved.
Well, itâs time for me to be going, going, gone. But be sure toâ¦
Read me again.