TODAY’S QUERY: An Elk County reader who asked to be nameless has
a (rhetorical) question:
“I don’t live in Bradford, but I get and read the Era every day.
So often one question comes to mind.
According to recent tests, Bradford kids can’t read or write.
Yet ,1 million was spent to put a ‘rug’ on the football field.
Many people are out of work, yet a huge tax increase is
proposed.
The football coach is let go, without giving a reason. Even if
he has done something, this is not the way to do it.
My question is, ‘Who is in charge up there?’ “
GET PICKING!: “Is it time to talk about leeks yet? We went out
on Sunday and got ours to go with our New Year’s dinner. Am sure
we’ll tap into them before Thursday. Can’t have something like that
just sitting around in the frig!”
That’s the word today from Bernice Morgan who send us an e-mail
this past Sunday. Hard to believe with the cold and snow we’ve
already had this winter, you could dig leeks. But then again, the
rain and “warm” temperatures have undoubtedly uncovered them.
SNOWBOW?: The Monday of Christmas week we had a phone call from
Jack Johnson of Wilcox about a phenomenon we had never heard of or
seen before – a “snowbow.” He was south out of Kane, he tells us,
when he said this unusual sight. “You’d call it a rainbow in the
summer. A snowbow in the winter time?”
There are all kinds of strange weather happenings in the winter
brought on by cold temperatures or a combination of features. Could
this be one?
PLANE CRASH: Mrs. Don Hudson of Belmont, N.C., writes on
Christmas eve: “Saw your reminder of the plane crash 40 years ago.
We were in Bradford at the time visiting Don’s family. Members of
his family were in the fire department so they were called to help.
Don went with them. It is an experience he has never forgotten.
What a way to spend Christmas eve. But in a way it epitomized what
Christmas is all about.”
FAN MAIL: Somebody liked our 100-year-old poem about the glories
of the old hometown written by a Californian. D.D. Tracey of
Claremont, Calif., writes, “Love it. Native of Kane. CA resident 50
years!”
