Wednesday, January 9, 2013

POTPOURRI SANS CONTROVERSY



FYI; The Friends of the Plainfield Public Library  are having a another fund raiser with Digital Memory Media on Jan 12, 2013 This will allow folks to convert their VHS, cassettes, slides, photos etc to digital.
  The time: 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. and will be in room 4.

Thankfully the nonsense that is called the College Football Bowl season is over with as great a letdown (mismatch) as could not be possibly conceived. It would be nice to go back to the old system of four major bowels all representing traditional conferences rivalries.  The present profusion of bowel games exists for only one reason; not to glorify amateur sports, but to garner the almighty dollar.

Oh for the olden days when there were truly student athletes and when such national unknown small bastions of learning like Hampden Sydney could beat the University of Virginia in football!

For this couch potato the one enjoyable sport season is now with us. That is College Basketball. But even that sport has become big business and traditional rivalries have been abandoned for leagues that may have little geographic relationships but encompass big money markets.  

So much for trivia; last night sharing public interest with the BOE and the PMUA, the Charter Commission held its first working meeting.  Along with the five dedicated citizen Commissioners there were six citizens in attendance. That included a representative from the League of Women Voters and the three bloggers.

The Commission by law has to have is function completed and its findings reported by August 2013. At that time their report will be available to all for study and any recommendations for change will be on the November ballot. For those interested their meeting minutes will be posted on their blog site.

All meetings start at 7:30 pm not at 7pm has reported on that fountain of misinformation, the Plainfield City Web site. They will take place on Thursday to avoid conflicts with other  civic meetings. The schedule is available on their blog. Anticipated will one or two public charter forums devoted to the comments of various  organization leaders and the public in general.

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