Sunday News

 

The Palmville Globe Volume 2 Number 27

Man Limits Landfill Usage.

Joe McDonnell, 79 and residing in Palmville Twp, Minnesota, recently kept several dozen wax covered cardboard boxes from going to the local landfill. "The food warehouse that supplies the food shelf I volunteer at was oversupplied with certain items," McDonnell tells the press. "The warehouse dropped several pallets of food for us to distribute to the general public. I was stationed at the corn-on-the cob pallet. The corn came three dozen ears to a box. We filled mesh bags with six ears each, leaving a dozen ears in the box. As the cars drove along either side of the line of pallets, we gave out a mesh bag if a car was picking up just for themselves, two bags for two households, or a box with 12 ears plus one bag if they were picking up for three households.  The hope was to get rid of the waxy boxes because they can't be recycled. We only learned how many households each car was picking up for as the car got close to our area. Towards the end, the supervisor told us to give twice as much corn per household to reduce leftovers. It was now much easier to send boxes with people." In a later communication McDonnell reports he thought they'd be stuck with three boxes in the end but three latecomers came and we got rid of all the boxes. "At the end of the distribution, we ended up with several six-ear mesh bags," he says, "but they can be given out on the regular distribution day at the food shelf. I'm presuming people who got the heavy-duty corn boxes will find a use for them around their homes.”

Man Cuts Up Tent Frame

Joe McDonnell, 79 and a shade seeker recently lost a shade tent in a microburst. "I thought these shade tents could take some rain," he tells reporters, "but it was a combination of rain and high winds that bent the frame of our tent. With the canvas roof peeled off, the frame looked like a sculpture of a giant dead spider. The frame needed to be cut up for disposal, but the whole framework jumped violently when I tried cutting the steel struts with my reciprocating power saw. Eventually I realized if I put the frame directly on the ground and let my blade dig into the soft dirt as I cut, things went much more smoothly. In less than an hour I had the framework neatly tucked into my truck for delivery to the landfill." In a follow-up email, McDonnell points out that all metal brought to the landfill is sent to the recycling plant. "That makes me feel a little less bad," he says.

Squib Cellar

If life is a beach

We're either riding the surf toward the shore 

Or being sucked out to sea by the undertow 

Knowledge is vulnerable to vandals.

The Great Library of Alexandria was burned in 48 BC.

The Cloud is keeping its fingers crossed.

The hard of hearing fear missing things.

Even more, they fear getting things wrong.

China may be an industrial powerhouse, but the country has many shuttered factories- victims of passing American fads.

Parents give their kids unique names so they don’t have to suffer taunts such as Tom Fool, Jack Ass, or Joe Sloppy. 

Children learn at an early age that they’re only as good as their last school pictures. 

Citizens are being chided for turning away from the news. 

But how many train wrecks do we have to watch before everyone knows the engineer must be replaced?