Potpourri

It certainly is gratifying to learn that the Plainfield Neighborhood Health Center is to receive $644,250 in state aid this year. I suppose this is the Corzine administration and our state politicians response to their destroying Plainfield's acute care facility. This is like adding a crab apple to the fruit bowl to replace the pear they ate.

There can be no substitute no matter how well it is configured that can replace the availability of a full service top notch hospital. Our political leadership must work relentlessly to find an entity that will reopen at least a 120 bed facility. We must face facts, Muhlenberg can not, nor will it ever be replaced. However Plainfield needs more than it has received.

That said, I am still transferring old slides to digital form. At present I am working on a volume of about 300 more slides from two visits to Egypt in 1973. One was part of a Smithsonian tour that not only spent time in Egypt but also included the Rose City of Petra in Jordan.Many have seen one of the significant sites in Petra as part of an Indiana Jones movie. I have not found those slides at this time. The other was a one day trip from Alexandria to Cairo and then to Port Said to rejoin the cruise ship.

Today before proceeding east of Suez, here are some snaps from the city of Suez which is at the south end, Red Sea, of the canal. The apartment house is not tilted, I think that was the photographer.