WHOLE STORY: Last Monday, we had printed an observation about a
group of students being discharged from a stopped school bus on
Route 219 to cross to the Beacon Light school in Custer
City.[neWLine]
Then, we had observed, the bus pulled a very short way down
Route 219 and entered the school parking lot where it discharged
more students.[neWLine]
We had wondered about the logic of this procedure, and had a
quick explanation from Harold Skaggs, director of transportation
for the Bradford Area School district.[neWLine]
What we had actually witnessed was the school bus stopping at a
group home which is directly across the street from the Custer City
school. A group of youngsters had been standing along Route 219 and
neither entered nor exited the bus; rather, the bus stopped and
switched on its flashing red lights and put out its crossing arm so
the traffic would stop and allow the kids to walk across the busy
highway.[neWLine]
Once the residents of the group home were on the other side of
the road, the bus proceeded a short distance south and pulled into
Beacon Light’s parking lot where it discharged children picked up
previously on the regular bus run.[neWLine]
We’re grateful for the explanation, and happy to re-learn the
lesson: “”Don’t believe anything you read and only half of what you
see.”” (Except, of course, you can always believe all of
RTS.)[neWLine]
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FEEDBACK: Bill Wallace sends us some feedback on a couple recent
RTS subjects.[neWLine]
“”Reading on your web page about the road construction in the
Bradford area it brought to mind that there are only two seasons:
Winter and road construction.””[neWLine]
He adds, “”enjoyed reading about Mr. Blaisdell as I had caddied
for him and Sarah in my younger days as my mother was the cook at
the Pennhills Club for many years.””[neWLine]
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HOOPIE NOTE: Our items about “”hoopies”” struck a chord with Hal
Harmon of Bradford who’s been hunting these woods for 50 some
years. Often, he said, he’d come across some old car frame in a
desolate valley and wonder why anyone would bother to drive a car
so far out of the way just to junk it. But, aha! Perhaps – and this
seems to be a credible supposition – it would be an abandoned
hoopie.
