The Arcade has all you can eat fried chicken on Thursdays. It's always hot and tasty and they never run out! If you're not in the mood for chicken, their menu has an extensive variety of items to choose from. Stop in any day for Mexican items to traditional American favorites and breakfast served all day, you'll never leave disappointed. Hurry downtown and bring your appetites!
Paxton Evangelical Covenant Church will be hosting a continental breakfast and bake sale at the church this Saturday, Dec. 5th, 9AM-Noon. There will also be a craft and bake sale featuring Swedish items and a quilt raffle. This is the annual event formerly known as "Luciafest." The Swedish pancakes and potato sausage breakfast has been eliminated. Is this due to the recent health department inspection scares?
The Pontoppidan Lutheran Church in rural Elliott is hosting its annual Pancake and Sausage Supper this Thursday Dec. 3 from 5-7:30PM. Other activities include a bake sale and quilt raffle. Donations at the door $6 for adults, $3 for children.
NASA is moving on from the Space Shuttle Program to the new Constellation Program. No need to imagine cool space displays in your own home, however because items will not go to the public. Items leftover from the Space Shuttle Program that can't be used for Constellation Program will be given away to qualified museums, state sponsored educational institutions, and NASA visitor centers. Items to be given away range from spacesuits, flight helmets, and shuttle wing edges to the NASA version of Tang. Potential recipients of shuttle items must pay for costs to prepare the item for shipping, actual shipping costs and costs to display the item. The cost to relocate a full size shuttle can range to $40 million according to a NASA website. Items can be viewed online at http://gsaxcess.gov/NASAWel.htm#.
More jobs may be in the making for Gibson City. Eco Manufacturing of Cambridge, MA may build a plasma gasification plant in Gibson City sometime in the next few years. Congratulations to Gibson City's Mayor Dickey, Diane Johnson at Ford County CEDF, and all the others who have been working on this project for the last year. Hopefully their hard work will start paying dividends in the near future. Here's further information on how the plasma gasification process works.
The "Powers that Be" at Apple have now decided to allow an iphone application they recently rejected to be sold on itunes. Earlier in the week Apple rejected the app developed by RG Entertainment. RG is operated by conservative film producer Ray Griggs. The app is an online directory of members of Congress that contains caricatures of each member. Apple found some of the caricatures too offensive especially the one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The caricatures were drawn by former Mad Magazine artist Tom Richmond.
Andy Roberts at WIXY 100.3 FM—Thanks for the compliment!
This phone is awesome. Qwerty keypad! Watch out iphone. Probably won't have signal here.
A Chicago Alderman says city police investigators are too smart and unable to relate to "lay people" according to a recent article in the Sun Times. Alderman Freddrenna Lyle (6th) says the educated policemen lose their ability to talk to 18 year old high school dropouts who are usually involved in shootings and other crimes. Are we to assume the alderman wants dumber people hired instead? The Alderman's comments don't speak well of her constituents.
A local, elderly farmer was seen yesterday cutting in line at the local grain elevator. That's a "no no." He drove past approximately 40 semi trucks already in line. Perhaps he didn't see the semis because he was talking on his cell phone…
Has the Clarence grain elevator developed a new and improved method for handling corn? Is it more beneficial to put the corn on the ground and then move it? Will it dry quicker exposed to sunshine while laying on the ground? Just like the old days, get out the corn scoops boys!
All you erudite people out there (there are more who claim to be than actually are) the 1st Amendment of the US Bill of Rights includes Freedom of Speech. We are exercising our right to freedom of speech! If you don't like what you read here, you are reading it of your own free will. If you don't like it, exercise your free will not to read it. We know what we will be writing in the future but you won't. We're sure however, you'll hear about it from someone else. Rest assured we will continue to blog. We thought of it first. You didn't.
We blogged back in August about the government fraudulently reporting the numbers for the Cash for Clunkers Program. Now the AP is reporting clunker pickups were traded in for new pickups instead of highly fuel efficient vehicles. 95,000 new vehicles purchased under the program got less than 20 miles to the gallon.
My dear Mrs. J. Callabash! Your efforts have been of the utmost importance to me. Let me extend my heartfelt thanks and appreciation. I have benefited exponentially. My efforts are truly not worthy of all these benefits you have given me. I greatly appreciate them, none the less.
This is no surprise….our tax dollars are being used to pay for campaign work for Cook County Board Clerk Dorothy Brown's campaign. Earnfare employees (a state funded job training program) were ordered to gather signatures to fill Brown's petitions for her run for Cook County Board President.
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