Report
From Town Hall – November 2009
(November 10th, 2009)
The Laughlin Town Advisory Board held its regular monthly meeting today. After a no doubt much appreciated absence from the pages of The Laughlin Herald, the Occupation Board will now have to once again have a voice speaking that their puppet master, Democratic County Commissioner and Harry Reid Commissar Steve Sisolak can’t muzzle. This was a more sedate meeting as they go, but nonetheless, there were plenty of issues residents of Gulag Laughlin should be aware of.
Trash Collection
Bob Coyle, Vice President of Government Affairs for Republic Services, the company that collects our trash, spoke to the Board, at the invitation of Board member and Community Development Committee Chair Janet Medina. They are offering Laughlin the opportunity to upgrade our trash collection to a more automated system that uses giant robotic arms to lift trash cans and empty them into the trash trucks. There appeared to no opposition to this idea at all and the Board voted to formally request that Laughlin make the transition. While collection would drop to once a week, Republic Services will provide the new larger specially designed trash cans that fit the robotic arms at no cost to residents. These cans hold more, have lids that don’t blow off and are considerably easier for older residents to move because they have both a handle that can be pushed and built in wheels. For those who want to recycle, they will also be given a single can and will no longer have to sort recyclables. Households that generate more trash than others (like your editors) will be provided with more cans as needed. The cans come in three sizes and the largest is only 34 inches in width and will fit through any gate. This is really a win-win solution for Laughlin.
Community Reports
Blah, Blah, Blah.
[I’m sorry, was that
insensitive? I guess it’s a good thing I don’t care.]
Please Run Over My Head
With A Steamroller
I’ll be merciful this time and not mention any names or agencies,
but what will it take to get some people to spend a few minutes in front of a mirror
practicing public speaking? Or actually preparing their remarks? Or asking
someone else to watch them on TV to tell them how much they make people want to
inject Novocain into their brains? Learn to speak, please, I’m begging. Next
time I’ll be less kind.
Next We’ll Get Steam
Radiators Like The
James Vincent, Board Chair and Chair of the Parks and Recreation Committee reported on the approaching completion of a community bulletin board. Very limited in scope and requiring that you actually hitch up your horse and buggy and ride over to Aldapes to view it, this new Town Advisory Board continues to ignore an offer it had to develop a 21st Century online Master Community Calendar that would be enormously more useful. I wrote about this last November; the full story may be read online here at The Laughlin Herald at http://www.laughlinherald.com/my_weblog/2008/11/the-blind-leading-the-blind.html
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