BLUE BOXES: Several readers are enlisting the aid of other RTS
readers to help them figure out just what are those objects they’ve
been spotting in some trees along local roads.
“I was curious as to the function of the blue rectangle-shaped
boxes I see hanging from trees in my travels around the area,”
Sarah Rhodes of Shinglehouse writes. “They are also tethered to the
ground. I would appreciate any information.”
That same query was posed by Nick Dixon of Duke Center who added
that these boxes are about 1 1/2 feet long by 6 inches. And Buffie
Baldwin from Eldred writes that she has seen a number of them when
she drives to Coudersport and on the way to Bradford.
Readers?
COMMUNITY PARK: Still in dispute, it seems, is the closing date
of the Community Park baseball field.
One reader writes, “I think the gentleman who said the Community
Park closed in 1950 was wrong. I grew up in that area, and in 1950,
I was only 7 years old.
“I remember going to the baseball games and learning to drive my
father’s car in the parking lot, even when there was a game. We had
a 1956 Oldsmobile to start with, then in 1959, we got a new car, a
1959, with power brakes.
“This is why I think the date of 1950 is not correct. I also
remember the circus coming in by train and setting up where Speer
or KOA is now.”
Gary Barr concurs about the later closing date, citing as
evidence the fact his father took him to ball games there.
“I was born in 1950,” he writes.
You do the math!
Gary also added that he delivered the Sunday edition of the
Buffalo Evening News in Lewis Run back in 1959 and 1960, answering
fellow one-time paper boy Jim Grennan’s inquiry several columns
ago.
LOCAL NEWS: We heard from a reader that Debbie Hoffower from
Emporium was a call-in contestant for the “Spring Fling a Gro-go”
trivia contest on Live with Regis and Kelly’s June 9 show.
The question was, “What insect comes out every 17 years?” Debbie
guessed “locust.” The correct answer was “cicada.”
However, the reader said she did win a ,500 gift certificate and
is entered in the second chance drawing for a trip worth
,25,000.
