APRIL 11 - 17,1984 THE CITIZEN PAGE THIRTEEN
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Out in Van B r n County
Government by teeter totte,
rry you ruined your
and the h m ofy ur
I to n that y u
out there with ut
in perm' ion. It em that I forgot
to mention that th t place north of
Bangor where' you c n e into heaven
on clear night i out in a f rmers pig
lot, f t is, unle you kno exactly
ho to g t to it you ju might ccident­
Iy ep in the manure lagoon, but then,
I ne r thought that anyb dy would
want to g to a scared pot li e that
by slipping in thru the bac way. Be-
'de , anybody ith a cold bad that
hey can't smell pig lot ouldn't be
ut at night and except for the odor
that new greenish brown color of your
shoes will I 0 good with that ne
round dre tha you bought
e .
at . all of the commotion about
anyhow - nobody wants
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to g there bad en ugh to d what YULL __ xe the mot r part and let it sit
have to do to et there - do they? there disfi uring the neighborh d until
the fir t now fall. Then he put it back
to ether and drive it back behind the
house to wait until next pring.
Angela Davi will be a candidate for
Vice-Pre ident on the ommunist Party
tic et in ovember's ele tion ...
... IS T IT GOING to be ni e when
that Kal Haven I Trail is finally brought
to reality? Our Cornrni ioners have
endor d the idea. Kalamazoo County
Commissioner have endorsed the idea.
o , all that's left to be done i finding
million dollar or nd we can have
hikers and bikers and nice quite snow­
mobile zipping across the back of our
prop rty.
Everybody knows th t the are not
- the kind of people who will reach across
the fence to pick fruit berries or make
holes in the fence if the trees are a
littl farther back. Mu t we all sacrifice
everything on the altar of 'attracting
tourist" or do tho of us who don't
sell to tourist have nybody to champion
our cause.
Why'do you thin that Reagan should
be concerned about your n having to
go into the armed forces - we know that
hi son won't have to go ...
... Sound like May is going to be a
big month in Covert for those who
po ss any of the performing ills.
The AACP will on r Cake W�.
There is talk of a Talent Show also talk
of a Variety Show and still more talk
about a Performers orkshop an Art
Classes. There will be something for
everybody.
Do you kn w that a I t of political
jobs ill b up for ele tion thi year?
Would you lik to run for one of them?
(Remember, they told Je th t he
couldn't run too. Do you n what i
required of y u if you want to run? Do
you kno that you need to start organiz­
ing and letting fol now that you are
running ner than the incumbent?
Do you know that we will probably
hav more Bla k folk v ting this year
than ever in history? Do you no that
this will be your b t chan e to in?­
If not no - When?
On on I vel it I 0 li e a n of
maturity on the part of the hoi coun­
try for us to collectively, ith ut any­
b dy saying one word ut 1 ud It gre
that Brotherhood Wee w s cr
But on another level nob dy lied and
said that they were rry to e it o.
body n wledge that any such thin
had ever ev n exi ted, nobody que tioned
th calendar m ers when the 1984
edition came out with the blan
in February.
It's trange, eerie, fri tening, Ii e the
quiet before a tonn like waiting for th
other shoe to drop - how cou d a vener­
ble institution like Brotherhood eek,
mething that we had suffered thru
for all the many years ju t di ppe r,
vanish ithout a trace, without a whine
or whim mer , like a ip sinking in the
night or a tree falling in the middle of the _
forrest when nob dy wa around to say
for ure het er its falling made a und
or not - like the brainw shin and mind
c ntrol in the book "1984" or better
still the udden 10 of memory Qf pa t
events common in the b k' Th
Animal Farm."
The quietne s of the di ppearance
of Brotherhood Week while not t be
regretted becau it d s rem ve me of
the hypocricary from the American
ene, should at the me time make u
aJl take a clo r at the times in which we
live - and ponder ur future.
TO HEAR MONDAL and Hart you
ould thin that they wer running for
Pre id nt of I rael.
If Je wasn't ther to hold their
fe t to the fire they never would get
around talkin about the things that
we want to hear ...
Did you see where our County Com­
rrussioner found over $300,000 that
they didn't know that they had. Don't
worry they are not about, 0 cut your
taxes. They will find meway to spend
it. It ems like no more than year ago
that tho same commissioners went
over to the court hou one morning and
discovered that they (we) were over
300,000 in debt that they didn't kn w
about.
ow I will be the first one to agree
that these financial shenanig n does
keep down boredom and keeps one alert
by not letting a per n sleep too sound.
It might even be good for bringing
tourists into the county, but is it good
government? Doe it inspire confidence,
does it make one think that our com­
missioners are competent? Is govern­
ment by teeter totter what we really
w nt? Give some thought to it, give
some thought to the fact that that
these people will be running for re­
election in few months. Then think
about who is to blame if they are put
back in office. .
Spring is officially he e. y neighbor
aero the road has tatted dismanteling
his car. Every year he jacks it up and
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arine Staff Sgt. RO­
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arine Composite Helicop­
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AU) based at arine
Corps Helicopter Air Stat­
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Commendation edal by
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. n of their outstanding
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