FIRST PEEPS: Stop the presses! Mike Blair phoned Tuesday
afternoon to make the first “official” peeper report of year 2007.
He heard the peeping in Custer City. Mike tells us he also had the
first peeper report in 2006 so he either has good hearing, or is
quick to the phone.
GOOD QUESTION: Sara of Crosby has a question: “Whatever happened
to the Good Samaritan?”
She elaborates, “The other day as we sat for a red light, we
noticed something in the road. Ten to 15 cars went around it, so we
thought it must have been someone’s garbage. We, sadly, drove
around it, too, but I glanced out the passenger window, and I
noticed it was a man with a cane who had slipped and fallen.”
“We stopped and turned on our flashers. Some driver stopped
right behind us and asked why we stopped – they didn’t see the man
in the road! My husband and stepson helped him up, and he headed
for his doctor’s office.
“How awful it is that no one stopped to help the poor man!”
THAT EAGLE: Sharon Rosenswie of Port Allegany on Monday writes,
“My brother-in-law, my sister and I were on our way to Olean from
Port Allegany Saturday afternoon on the Barnum Road outside of
Eldred. I looked over at the ‘swamps’ to watch the geese and there
was the most beautiful sight. A bald eagle perched in a tree. When
he flew, his wing span must have been six feet. We sat and watched
him for probably 20 minutes as he flew from one end of the swamp to
the other. Tried to get a picture but our camera phone wouldn’t
work. Absolutely beautiful and amazing.”
We can’t help but wonder if this is the same eagle spotted by
several of readers in that area.
OIL BOOM: Neil Hoffmier writes, “Met a ‘fellow Bradfordian’ in
the Orlando airport yesterday who mentioned that McKean County
(Bradford in particular) is being ‘ravaged’ by oil well drilling …
Dirt roads to many new wells with tanker trucks hauling oil
‘somewhere.'”
“Apparently this new drilling is NOT benefiting anyone up there?
Question: Is this true? Who is doing the drilling? Where is the oil
going? And assume drilling is ‘rotary tools’ and wonder what
depth.
“Maybe I should cancel my proposed visit in June and remember it
like it was in the ‘good old days’?”