Grandkids and City Council today

Do these ladies look lovely at 2 am or what?!?

Grandma Willyne loves Abigail and Chloe

The pictures clearly show the best part of my day, but I will mention City Council too.  We had the three candidates for County Sheriff come to introduce themselves and take 5 minutes each to tell where they would take the sheriff's department if elected.  I found out we have only five officers patrolling 2400 square miles of the county.  That clearly needs to change!  We also had a public hearing on the budget amendment to close out the year (which will end in two weeks on June 30).  No one came.  A shame because it shows we have made up what we had lost in our financial reserves, and did it while restoring one police officer we cut the year before and resuming needed maintenance work on several of our streets.  Kudos to the mayor and staff for pulling off this miracle! 

The Vat of Balls and Other Fun - The Grandchildren Are Coming!

I ended my day by vacuuming the play room - all set for grandchildren to come tomorrow and enjoy!

Weather has been crazy here in the past week.  Five days of 105 degree plus heat, then highs in the 70s for a couple days with a terrific 33 minute thunderstorm including both  pounding hale and torrential rains.  The streets were covered with several inches of water (even though the rainfall was only about half and inch, but it quickly drained and accumulated in all the low spots.  Two days after that it was clear blue skies and back in the 90s.  Wow!

I was back to the radiation clinic today for treatment 23 with 10 to go.  All done two weeks from today, yea!  Much less sore than a week ago, double yea!

My weigh-in was this morning, 254.0, the lowest point since I started the (very) gradual reduction plan -- by less than a pound, but I'll take it!

Today was a nice quiet day . . .

Today was a nice quiet day.  I spent the morning in church meetings and the afternoon resting with Willyne.  Danielle made us some nice lasagna.  I love Sundays!

Watching the Big Game with Doug Jr and His Friends

Doug Jr had several of his friends, Danielle, and me over to his home to watch USA and England play to a 1-1 tie in the FIFA World Cup today.  England scored in the first four minutes, USA tied it in the 40th minute on this play shown in the picture.  There was lots of other good shots, and some amazing saves by the USA goalie.  Mostly it was a lot of fun to be with Doug and his friends!

Copa do Mundo da FIFA Africa do Sul 2010!

Becca called us at 5:30 this morning to excitedly remind us en Portugues that today is the first day of the World Cup finals, so in honor of her and her excitement I present

click here to find out more! (hint: other language choices available at the top of the page)  look for "EN FR ES DE PT عربي"


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It's day 22 with 11 to go!  Getting closer to finishing my treatments :)

Hurricane Valley Fire District Funding on June 22 Election Ballot

Fire Chief Tom Kuhlmann Making Presentation At Public Hearing Tonight

This evening I attended a public hearing in the La Verkin city council chambers to provide information about Proposition 1 on the local ballot on June 22.  Only a few people came, which disappointed me, because I'm wondering how else they will get information to make their decision.

For many years, Hurricane city has provided fire service to neighboring communities in the valley, including La Verkin, Toquerville, and Virgin, as well as surrounding unincorporated areas of the county.  Three years ago a fire district serving these communities was formed, with a board composed of elected representatives from each town.

The period for transferring from Hurricane city operation to district operation is ending July 1.  Funding the district is what is on the ballot June 22.  If the voters authorize a property tax levy, it will be done that way.  If the vote is no, then residents of the various cities will have an additional fee on their city utilities bill for fire service.  A monthly fee would add 12% in administrative costs to the fire district budget (simply because a monthly fee is a less efficient means of collecting).  It woud also be difficult to administer in unincorporated areas without utility billings.

Doug Jr, you've asked for more info in my blog on what I'm involved in the city -- this report and what I posted last week about the Utah State University professor presenting his designs for beautifying the main intersection in our city are attempts to do that.

Please click here for a link to the brochure that was handed out at tonight's meeting. (It's on La Verkin's city website).  There are more public hearings coming up June 15, 16, and 19 to present this information again -- hopefully those presentations will be better attended than tonight's and the two previously held the past two nights.