Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Feb 25 2005
Call For Postcard Art
(Illinois) Lake County Discovery Museum's Curt Teich Postcard Archives is calling for postcard-size art entries. For more information, go to the site and click on the link to the competition details. See some past winners here. The deadline for 2005 is August 1.
posted at: 15:37 | category: /Arts and Entertainment | link to this entry
(Illinois) Lake County Discovery Museum's Curt Teich Postcard Archives is calling for postcard-size art entries. For more information, go to the site and click on the link to the competition details. See some past winners here. The deadline for 2005 is August 1.
posted at: 15:37 | category: /Arts and Entertainment | link to this entry
Wine Tasting On State Roads
One of my other uses of writing time is in the area of event and festival promotion, so I was intrigued by the news that the mountain community of Boulder Creek may not be able to do the usual thing at its Boulder Creek Art, Wine and Music Festival this year. The art is not the problem. The music is not the problem. Guess what's left. The event is usually held on a cordoned-off area of Highway 9, which happens to run right through the little community. But Highway 9 is a state-owned road, and the idea of folks wandering up and down a state-owned road while sipping alcohol is an activity that Caltrans fears is a state liability issue.
The event also uses the traffic control services of the CHP, another state-funded agency. These are the officers we generally pay to help keep alcohol and roads as far apart as possible.
It's an interesting dilemna. If teens sectioned off a state road and then had a keg party we'd all be ready to pounce like tigers. But isn't this basically what the adults want to do? Should we be using state money to help assist wine drinking right on state highways, even if the wine-sippers are walking and aren't operating a vehicle? I wonder how many other communities are going to have to face this issue soon.
posted at: 08:25 | category: | link to this entry
One of my other uses of writing time is in the area of event and festival promotion, so I was intrigued by the news that the mountain community of Boulder Creek may not be able to do the usual thing at its Boulder Creek Art, Wine and Music Festival this year. The art is not the problem. The music is not the problem. Guess what's left. The event is usually held on a cordoned-off area of Highway 9, which happens to run right through the little community. But Highway 9 is a state-owned road, and the idea of folks wandering up and down a state-owned road while sipping alcohol is an activity that Caltrans fears is a state liability issue.
The event also uses the traffic control services of the CHP, another state-funded agency. These are the officers we generally pay to help keep alcohol and roads as far apart as possible.
It's an interesting dilemna. If teens sectioned off a state road and then had a keg party we'd all be ready to pounce like tigers. But isn't this basically what the adults want to do? Should we be using state money to help assist wine drinking right on state highways, even if the wine-sippers are walking and aren't operating a vehicle? I wonder how many other communities are going to have to face this issue soon.
posted at: 08:25 | category: | link to this entry
