They expect to see more traffic with an improved Highway 191 and fear their taxes will rise as development comes. Most want to see commercial development held to the Highway 191 corridor.Harvey Allen, Sue Makin and Sandy Dietering discussed the impact the new port would have and the possible impact of mining if it resumes in Courtland. They see housing demands and water as big issues. They also want to keep agriculture alive and flourishing in the Mid-Sulphur Springs Valley. They do not want noise and light pollution, overpopulation, nor do they want to see Elfrida incorporate and become its own city providing services that would increase taxes.At another table, James Guzz and Robyn Gibbons were talking in their group about encouraging economic development of environmentally-friendly industries to bring jobs to the area and even county support of work-at-home computer jobs.

Mr. Handy Person

The next day, we even called a plumber to get some input. He thought it might have been a dead rodent in the wall. It wasn’t. Anyway, we decided to make a shepherd’s pie one night. I went to the store while she started cooking. When I got back, she was not in a good mood and said, "We’re not having shepherd’s pie tonight." What had happened was this: We had previously purchased a bag of potatoes from a local market, and in that bag was the most rotten potato we’d ever seen. I know potatoes eventually shrivel and grow eyes, but this one was literally mush and mold. In hindsight, we learned a lesson. And the house got cleaned and smelled good again. We don’t plan on shopping at that market again. — Dennis, Griswold, Conn. Dear Dennis: Mr. HandyPerson’s initial encounter with a putrid potato in his own kitchen many years ago left such a memorable impression on him that years later when a friend complained about an unknown bad smell in her kitchen, one brief sniff was enough to get him to ask her (correctly) to check her potatoes.

KING EYES MORE GLORY

We believed we were the better team.

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R. Carriere from Maritimes, Canada writes:

These morons running the zoo should be put out to pasture NOW.

What kind of idiot GM would send his prized goalie half way across the continent and into a cesspool of a dressing room-then sit him on the bench or in the stands -then send him back. Even if he got the start, you have to be out of your mind to start him in San Jose-real good for the confidence to get blown out and stormed in the crease while the Leaf defence look on. Look at the way Gainey/Carbo are bringing along Price?

IDIOTS!!

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What’s smug and deserves to be decapitated?

Having walked to work in the city for the last 5 years, I've been hit once and nearly taken out half a dozen times - and they usually have the cheek to harangue me, the pedestrian. I have never been badly hurt. This is fortunate as they are the only vehicles on the road that don't require third party insurance. This means that if one does injure a pedestrian or cause an accident with other vehicles, the injured party has no come-back whatsoever. I believe that this should change. Cycles used on city streets should be registered, taxed and insured. I for one would report the the red-light jumpers if I could.

West Virginians hollering about horror-film casting

She told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Monday that the announcement was not meant to stereotype people from West Virginia.

"We tried to word it in a way that's not offensive," she told the newspaper. "I hope it's not an offensive thing. It's not meant to be a generalization about everyone in West Virginia. That's why we put that it's in a 'holler' in the mountains."

The company's Web site, however, specifies the scene as a "West Virginia holler."

The casting call also prompted criticism from U.S. Reps. Shelley Moore Capito and Nick Rahall, both of West Virginia; U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Cecil E. Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers union.

"Why must it be automatically assumed by the surgically enhanced 'beautiful people' who populate Hollywood that those who live in the hills and hollows of places like West Virginia are all afflicted with physical abnormalities?" Roberts asked.

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL RENEWS CALL TO CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT TO ADOPT ...

Those talks would advance nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation objectives – and they were needed now. In making that call, he was not at all discounting the importance of preventing an arms race in outer space, or negative security assurances, or nuclear disarmament per se. However, the Conference had to decide how to organize its treatment of those issues without holding any of them hostage to the others.

In brief opening remarks, Ambassador Samir Labidi of Tunisia, President of the Conference, underscored that the Secretary-General's presence at the opening of the Conference's session added a new dimension to their efforts aimed at achieving substantive results in the Conference this year.

The plenary of the Conference was also addressed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Tunisia, as well as general statements from the Russian Federation, on behalf of the Eastern European Group, Sri Lanka, on behalf of the Group of 21, Italy on behalf of the Western Group, and China.