Thursday

It's Garbage Day!

19.9 degrees; frosty and foggy.

From WKTV: "Temperatures will plunge into the teens once again, with lows near 10 degrees possible in the North Country and Adirondacks. Clouds and flurries will persist through much of Thursday, keeping temperatures again in the low 30s at best.
This clipper will usher in a reinforcing shot of cold, and this will be even colder than what we've had this week. On Friday, scattered snow showers will be around the area. As winds align from the northwest, lake snows will begin developing southeast of Lake Ontario, which would keep most of the moisture primarilly in or just southwest of the Mohawk Valley. These lake snows may get very well organized Friday night and locally heavy snow is possible in southern Oneida, Madison, Chenango, southern Herkimer and Otsego Counties. We still are not 100% certain how this will play out, but as we get closer, we'll know much more. Check the Weather Blog for more thoughts. Stay tuned here for the latest.
Heavy lake snows will persist into Saturday morning, before gradually winding down Saturday afternoon."

There were a lot of Canada Geese on Woodman Pond, outside of Hamilton, yesterday.

I was really looking for Snow Geese. It was on November 27th when they came, last year.
(Photo by Jeff Reynolds. Click to enlarge!)

I haven't seen "Zach" out on Brouillette Road, for a few days, but there are three llamas in a new "preserve" near Earleys' on Route 20.

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Poor Mark Masca was complaining of being "cold" in Florida, and now a note has been sent to me by Greg Stevens in San Diego, California:

"I feel Marks pain. It is down to 55 degrees in San Diego."

He adds: " Thank you for the information on Coach Lemery, I played varsity b-ball for him at WCS and was able to send him a message."

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Someone had braved the cold, here, to decorate the Pumilia residence on Stafford Avenue ......

... and, just up the street, a gentleman (who fled when he saw the camera!) was hanging lights around his front doorway.

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OF SPECIAL NOTE

It seems amazing to me that, in this day and age, a small village like Waterville and, in fact, one single individual from that community, could be singled out for recognition by any branch of the federal government! But that's exactly what happened in Chicago at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 23rd Annual Clean Water Act Recognition Award Ceremony.

Considering the EPA's current preoccupation with matters like "Greenhouse Gases" and "Global Warming" why single out Waterville, New York? Because there is a division of that agency that evaluates the efficiency of all of the wastewater treatment facilities in the entire country and, out of the hundreds or thousands of possible "winners," Waterville was given the First Place Award in the Small Advanced Plant Division "for its proactive approach to maintenance, process control, and plant improvements, which enable efficient and cost effective plant operations."

You can read more about the technicalities, here, at the EPA site, but the following is especially noteworthy and is deserving of a large


The award also reads:

"The key to the plant's success is Chief Operator Louie Langone who has been integral in making positive changes in plant operation and fostering strong public relations.

"Public education is extremely important to Langone, who annualy hoss a "field exercise" for local middle school classes to teach students how a treatment facility works and the importance of water use awareness.

"In addition to improving process control and providing public education the plant's staff identifid composting as a more economical option for solids handling and than land application or land-filling. ... The finished compost is distributed free to the public and landscape services, further improving the plant's community relations."

Lou Langone - last Spring.

If you missed the blog posting about my tour of
the facility, click here!

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Skip Foppes has placed two newly-restored 12" x 18" photographs in the display case at the Municipal Hall. One, taken from the very summit of Tassel Hill, is of the original Williams Farm which was on the road that lead around the back side of the Hill. The other picture shows work in progress at the first Reservoir. In the scene are two gentlemen - presumably "village fathers," dressed in long black overcoats and shining "top hats!"

I wouldn't even consider taking a picture of the pictures ------ you'll have to see them for yourselves!

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FOR THE RECORD

"And down and down she goes..."


I've just scrolled back - and back - and back - in the blog

and believe that the price of gasoline topped out at

$4.21.9 on June 20th!


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Have a great day, everyone!