WRONG TIME: A reader called to ask why the clock on Old City
Hall is no longer keeping time. Can anyone out there in RTS land
give us an answer?

WOOLY SIGHTING: It’s not often we get a Wooly Willy
sighting!

Nancy K. Lyon of Lexington, Ky., sends us a comic strip called
“Bizzaro” which she found in the Lexington Herald on May 14. It
shows a police officer handing a “Wooly Willy” to an individual and
saying, “We lost our artist in the latest round of budget cuts. Can
you create a likeness of the assailant?”

Pretty clever, we must admit.

We’d like to show readers the comic strip itself but that would
probably be a copyright infringement.

In any case, Nancy continues, “I believe Wooly Willy is still
made in Smethport. I couldn’t resist sending this to The Era. I
moved last October from Bradford and do miss the friendly folks,
but not the weather.”

While we’re the first to admit we have a touch of bad weather
from time to time, it could not be more gorgeous anywhere than it
is here in Bradford today. (We’re writing this Wednesday.) It’s in
the 80s and sunny. Although we do have to acknowledge that our
calendar reminds us we had snow in 2009 on May 18, 19, 20 and 21.
We’re not out of the woods yet so hold off on that garden.
Meanwhile, how many times have the peepers froze this year?

LEEKS LEAK?: Chauncey Kan in Florida begs to differ with our
suggestion that leeks can be freeze- dried and sent through the
U.S. mail. Or is he just being shrewd?

“A vacuum sealed package will keep the leek smell put? I don’t
believe it, I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it. You may argue
this point by sending some leeks to Chauncey Kan, 129 Christopher
Dr., Panama City Beach, Fla., 32413.”

Sorry, Chauncey, but leeks are done for this year.

Tim Lawson of Duke Center has this idea: “Another way to send
leeks through the mail is to dehydrate them then run them through a
small chopper or grinder. Then put them in a shaker and seal them
up. Use them just like salt and pepper. I used to send them to my
son like this when he was stationed in Iraq and the guys loved
them.”