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EX ALDERMAN NEWSLETTER 420 AND CHESTERFIELD UNAPPROVED

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March 28, 2020

TOWN & COUNTRY AND CHESTERFIELD CRIME REPORTS:

Sandra Jeane Rose

03/03/20 Felony Stealing Embezzlement pending Town & Country PD

01/11/00 Speeding Guilty $100 fine MO Hwy Patrol

07/05/97 Speeding Guilty MO Hwy Patrol

02/23/97 Drug Trafficking, Fel Drug Poss Guilty 5-yrs probation St. Louis Co PD

09/03/95 Speeding Guilty MO Hwy Patrol

05/07/94 Fail to Keep Right Resulting in ACC Guilty MO Hwy Patrol

03/18/89 Moving Violation reduced to Illegal Parking St. Louis Co PD

Kevyn Henderson He doesn’t believe in car insurance.

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03/02/20 Possession of Marijuana, No Ins pending Town & Country PD

Speeding, No headlights at Night, Imp Lane Use

Exp Lic Plates,

12/22/19 No Insurance, Speeding, Imp Lice Plates pending St. Louis City PD

10/29/19 Expire or Imp Lic Plates, No Ins pending St. Louis City PD

10/04/19 No Insurance, No valid Lic Plates, Headlight vio St. Louis City PD

09/09/19 No Ins pending No Co Police Coop

08/26/19 No Insurance pending Town & Country PD

10/03/18 3-counts Violation of Order of Protection pending St. Louis City PD

02/14/18 No Insurance pending St. Louis City PD

10/17/17 No Insurance, Stop Sign violation pending St. Louis City PD

06/19/17 No Ins, Unreg Vehicle pending No Co Police Coop

05/23/17 Stop Sign Violation pending Normandy PD

04/04/17 No Insurance pending St. Louis City PD

Molly Fox

03/02/20 Felony Stealing pending Town & Country PD

08/05/19 Drug Violation, Resisting Arrest pending Crestwood PD

08/01/19 Felony Drug Possession pending Crestwood PD

01/19/18 Driving While Revoked No, Ins, Fail to Reg Veh, No Co Police Coop

05/21/17 Driving While Revoked Guilty 90-days jail O’Fallon PD

05/29/16 DWI guilty 17-days jail MO Hwy Patrol

02/03/16 Driving While Revoked, No Insurance MO Hwy Patrol

01/26/16 Stealing St. Louis City PD

12/08/15 Felony Drug Poss Guilty 5-yr SES probation St. Peters PD

10/21/15 Driving While Revoked pending St. Ann PD

07/28/12 Speeding Guilty fine MO Hwy Patrol

07/09/12 Speeding Guilty fine MO Hwy Patrol

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Nicholas (Nick) Gierer

2/24/20 Leaving the Scene of Acc (Crash), Drive W/Suspended Town & Country PD

09/01/19 DWI, Speeding 20-25 over, Unreg Veh. Pending MO Hwy Patrol

Keith A. Dixon Creve Coeur

02/24/20 DWI, Improper Turn pending Town & Country PD

Terry Waller

02/23/20 Speeding, No Ins pending Town & Country PD

11/02/19 Driving While Revoked, No Headlights, No Ins St. Louis City PD

04/06/18 Driving While Revoked pending MO Hwy Patrol

09/14/16 Driving While Revoked pending Bel Ridge PD

02/19/15 Expired Lic Plates, Driving While Revoked, No Ins St. Ann PD

05/02/14 Speeding, No Ins, pending St. Ann PD

05/09/14 Speeding, St. Ann PD

Charles Richard Williams

02/22/20 DWI, Improper Lane Use pending Town & Country PD

12/30/19 OMV Expired Lic Plates Guilty fine Florissant

09/06/97 Speeding Guilty fine MO Hwy Patrol

01/06/95 Speeding Guilty fine MO Hwy Patrol

Vincent Diveley

02/16/20 DWI, Imp Lane Use, No Headlights pending Town & Country PD

Refused breath test

He is a command officer with the Illinois Dept of Corrections.

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Clifford Forrest

02/14/20 Felony Stealing Pending Town & Country PD

02/13/20 Felony Attempt Stealing pending University City PD

12/08/09 Felony Theft of Credit Card, 3-cts Forgery 6-years prison Chesterfield PD

11/01/03 Forgery Guilty 3-years prison Jackson Co

10/01/03 Forgery, Rec Stolen Property Guilty probation rev 5-yrs Ballwin PD

09/30/03 Felony Forgery Guilty Probation revoked 5-yrs prison Chesterfield PD

02/25/03 Driving While Suspended, Drug Vio Guilty 10-days jail Columbia PD

02/22/03 Receiving Stolen Property Guilty 120 days jail Boone CO

06/25/03 2-Counts Receiving Stolen Property Guilty St. Louis City PD

01/27/03 3-Counts of Receiving Stolen Property Guilty 30-days St. Louis City PD

08/13/90 Felony Forgery, Felony Drug Violation Guilty 5-years St. Louis CO

02/17/88 Felony Stealing Guilty 3-years prison St. Louis CO

Roger A. Collins Richmond Heights,MO

02/11/20 DWI, Imp Lane Use, Refuse Breath Test Town & Country PD

01/19/11 Unreg Veh, No Safety Inspection Guilty St. Louis CO PD

02/09/97 Speeding Guilty MO Hwy Patrol

02/09/20 DWI, Improper Lane Use Refused Breath test Town & Country PD

10/15/19 Moving Violation reduced to Illegal Parking $191 fine Bel Ridge PD

09/02/16 Moving Violation reduced to Illegal Parking $192 fine Ellisville PD

02/25/15 Ordinance Criminal/Traffic Code reduced to Littering Ellisville PD

Melissa Bahmandeji

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02/03/20 Stealing (occurred 12/18/19) pending Town & Country PD

11/17/18 Counterfeit Lic Plates guilty fine Webster Groves PD

05/29/18 Felony Drug Possession Guilty Probation St. Louis Co PD

05/14/18 Felony Drug Possession Guilty Probation St. Louis Co PD

02/02/18 2-counts Felony Drug Poss Guilty Probation St. Louis CO PD

08/25/13 Felony Drug Poss, Endangering Lives of Children Louisville KY PD

Caitlyn Jean Wise

02/03/20 DWI, Speeding, Poss of Marijuana Refused BA Town & Country PD

08/27/16 Moving Vio reduced to Illegal Parking Fine MO Hwy Patrol

07/01/16 Moving Violation reduced to Illegal Parking $100 MO Hwy Patrol

TOWN AND COUNTRY 2020 CRIME STATS AND POLICE ACTIVITY JAN 01-FEB 29

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2020 TOTALS 2019 TOTALS

MONTHLY UNFND'D Y.T.D. MONTHLY Y.T.D

Calls For Service 2606 4961 2553 5215

Reports Written 185 402 140 303

Incidents NRN 2421 4559 2413 4912

Area Checks 1141 2041 999 2054

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Courtesy Awareness Checks 17 26 18 33

Traffic Accidents: 57 120 56 110

Fatalities 0 0 0 0

Injury 15 34 13 32

Property Damage 42 86 43 78

Traffic Summonses 300 614 220 450

Traffic Warnings 268 558 157 323

Total Traffic Contacts 568 1172 377 773

Police Assists 30 54 31 53

Alarms: 71 136 76 139

Residential 58 75 47 92

Business 13 61 29 47

Arrests: 41 87 25 54

Felony 1 5 2 5

Misdemeanor 0 2 0 1

Town & Country Ordinance 36 68 22 44

Fugitive Other Department 4 12 1 4

Summons in Lieu 20 42 8 20

Part One Offenses: 8 18 7 20

Criminal Homicide 0 0 0 0

Negligent Manslaughter 0 0 0 0

Forcible Rape 0 0 0 0

Robbery 0 0 0 1

Assault (agg/cmn): 2 2 4 6

Aggrevated 1 1 1 1

Common 1 1 3 5

Burglaries: 1 5 0 0

Residential 1 5 0 0

Business 0 0 0 0

Larceny-Theft 5 10 3 12

Motor Vehicle Theft 0 1 0 1

Arson 0 0 0 0

Part Two Offenses: 34 71 17 33

Curfew Violation 0 0 0 0

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Disorderly Conduct 0 0 0 0

Driving While Intoxicated 8 16 3 6

Embezzlement 0 1 0 0

Forgery /Counterfeiting 0 0 0 1

Fraud: 2 7 3 8

IRS 0 0 0 0

Other 2 7 3 8

Gambling 0 0 0 0

Liquor Laws 4 4 0 0

Narcotic/Drug Laws 5 17 4 7

Offenses Family/Children 0 0 0 0

Runaway/Missing 0 0 0 0

Sex Offenses 0 0 1 1

Stolen Property Buy/Rec’d/Pos 0 0 0 0

Trespassing 0 0 0 0

Property Damage 2 2 1 1

Weapons Violation 0 0 0 0

All Others 13 24 5 9

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NO PUBLIC AT NEXT TOWN AND COUNTRY ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD

MEETING: On March 20 the below highlighted announcement was on the ARB

agenda for the April 6 meeting.

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For over a year Alderwoman Lindsey Butler has been putting a cell phone on a tripod

and recording Board of Aldermen meetings. The audio is a little week, but at little very

little expense you can follow what going on. The city is not claiming if they will have a

video recording of the ARB meeting.

HOUSES ON THE AGENDA: Last week we featured the proposed new house at 3005

Thornberry. Here are some of the other ones:

#2 Glenmoro Lane, 3940 square foot house proposed:

Torn down 1½ years ago at the corner of Glenmaro and Clayton Road just east of I-270.

Proposed

16 Roclare 4886 square foot

Old house built in 1963

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Proposed house. The city files claim it is a 4886 sg ft house, while the realtor websites

claim it is a 5,423 sq ft house. It is on a 1-acre lot with new houses on both sides and

across the street. Soon 80-year-old former mayor Skip Mange will be the last person on

Roclare Lane in an original house.

13714 Belcrest: This is where the Evil builder Rob Rhenquist clear cut a portion of

woods on South Mason Road. This ugly one with too many roofs and hard to clean

windows is 5400 square feet. Welcome to the NO TREE Belcrest subdivision.

Proposed second house:

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430 Stonechase Lane. This is the new subdivision on the south side on Conway Road

next to the Maryville sports fields. It looks bigger than it is as the plans at City Hall claim

4560 square feet.

12827 Clayton Road

Original House 2,011 square feet, 3 bedrooms 2-baths on 1.12 acre lot built in 1956.

The house had formerly been owned by Dorothy Rogers who served on the T&C Police

Commission for 13 years solely so Mayor Jon “Cigarette Lobbyist” Dalton could put his

campaign signs in her yard on busy Clayton Road. She often made vulgar and politically

incorrect statements. Finally in 2012 she was removed from the Commission after

calling handicapped persons “retards” at a meeting. That was followed by this sign in

her yard before the next mayor election:

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Proposed: 4871 square ft on Clayton Road next to Sellenriek Road.

THE CASE OF THE 17-FOOT HIGH 2-STORY “PLAYHOUSE.” The new huge house

that replaced the 100 year old farmhouse at 1414 Topping Road ran into a problem at

the last Town and Country Planning and Zoning Meeting. This issue was not about the

main house, but a “playhouse.” You can buy them from Amazon or Walmart.com.

Below are a coupe examples ranging in prices from $200 to $700.

“Our staff called and asked if we need a permit for a “playhouse” and were told ‘No’,”

said contractor Tony Frisella. Here is the difference for the above playhouses and the

one that was partially constructed behind 1414 Topping before the City ordered it

stopped.

Below is the main house facing Topping Road.

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Below is the photo I took of the “Playhouse” shot down the driveway of a house on Kent

Manor Road. The “playhouse” construction was stopped before the roof and full second

story was complete. Plans show an 80 square foot structure, 17-feet high. There was

no mention if an elevator was included.

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Here is some of the back and forth on this issue:

Amanda Mueller: “This structure is boarding on a commercial structure.

What effort has been made to contract the neighbors?”

Tony Frisella: “I have to admit that not much has been done.”

Will McKnight: “This is a very big playhouse. In fact it looks like a house on

stilts.”

Granville White: “We should be back to square one on this. This

project has been shoved through the backdoor.”

And that is what happened. The project was continued and plans were requested and

input from the neighbors is expected. With the coronavirus stay-at-home orders the

next meeting is in question. It is unlikely a P&Z meeting would be held for public

attendance April. A video meeting might make it tough for neighbors to comment or

they could send emails to be read.

WITH GATHERING OUTLAWED IN GROUPS MORE THAN 10 OUTLAWED AND A

STAY-IN- PLACE ORDER 48 HOURS AWAY, WHERE WERE PEOPLE GOING LAST

SATURDAY. Besides going to work if your job is waivered, going to the doctor’s office,

the vet office, the supermarket, drug store, gas station and to parks to exercise are the

only exceptions.

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Last Saturday it was cold but sunny with the temperatures in the low 40s. Let’s see

where people were going to escape home for a walk with the spouse or the dog.

Queeny Upper Lot Dog Park Total Longview Town Square

Sat 03/21 106 25 131 37 5*

TOWN SQUARE: Sat. March 21 3:15pm The boutique was open with 2 employees’

cars. A work crew had 3 cars doing work on the future Nail Salon which would be

prohibited from opening for at least 30 days by order of the County Executive as a non-

essential business during the COVID-19 quarantine. However there were some walkers

at the Town Square.

LONGVIEW FARM PARK Sat. March 21 3:20pm There were 37 cars in the parking

lots, plus walkers head toward the park and leaving. The one thing that was different

from other past visits is that the playground area was not overflowing with kids.

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QUEENY PARK Sat March 21 3:40pm They were parking on the grass again as

almost all the parking places on the upper lot were taken, except for a few handicapped

spots. There were 106 cars on the upper lot and 25 cars on the dog park lot on the

Mason Road side of the park. The County closed the Dog Park on Monday through at

least April 22.

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It was a better week than the last two for Mayor Jon Dalton’s “Money down the drain”

project also known as the Town Square. There were 8 people spotted walking. The

week before there were zero cars and no people and the week before that there was

one car and two people. With the health crisis and shut down of non essential retail

businesses meaning a reduction in sales tax revenue maybe it would have been nice to

have some of that $10,000,000 in budget reserves.

TOWN AND COUNTRY HOURLY LEGAL BILL FOR FEBRUARY:

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If you notice there are several times the bill includes “research Scott Property Issue.”

We wrote about this back in 2019. The northeast corner of Clayton Road and North

Ballas, where for many years a Shell 3-bay service station was located and most

recently where the Board of Aldermen turned down a request to build a small branch

bank and donut shop/diner, is where the City of Town and Country wants to take

property for a right turn lane.

After turning down the Bank/donut shop the city tried to buy a portion of the property for

a right turn lane from WB Clayton Road onto a new entrance lane on NB Ballas. The

Scott Family, property owners, did not accept the city’s offer. The city used eminent

domain to obtain the land. The amount of land taken for the traffic project would pretty

much make the remaining property worthless.

An eminent domain commission created by the Circuit Court decided that $393,876 was

a fair price for the land the city wanted. The Scott family did not think so and filed an

appeal of the ruling for it to be reconsidered.

Here is the finding of the commission on September 10, 2019.

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The Scott Family did not like it.

The city paid the three commissioners for their time and ruling on October 22, 2019.

The payment was for $10,800.

There are no more legal pleading to show at this time, excepting the $140 an hour

billing being charged to the city to review the matter by the city’s law firm.

This is from our attorney concerning the Clayton Road & Ballas Road matter between

the Scott Family and Town & Country:

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Now that the amount of condemnation has been filed ($393,876.00) the Court must

set a date for a jury trial on this amount. Both sides filed the necessary pleading

requesting a jury trial on the amount the commissioners decided; the Scott Family

in September, and the City of Town and Country in October. No trial date has

been set by the Court. Maybe the parties will try to settle to get this over with.

AFTER VIOLATING MISSOURI LAW FOR THREE YEARS, DALTON THE LOBBYIST

WAITS TO THE LAST MINUTE AND TERMINATES HIS CAMPAIGN FUND WITH

THE ETHICS COMMISSION. Missouri law stated that a registered Lobbyist in the State

of Missouri cannot have an active campaign committee and an account. Town and

Country Mayor Jon Dalton, a lobbyist, violated this law for over three years, until citizen

complaints caused the Ethic Commission to order that he disband his candidate

committee.

FROM THE DECEMBER ETHICS COMMISSION RULING:

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On December 19 Dalton was given 90 days to close his campaign fund. He could have

closed it the next day, but no; that would not be the Dalton way. On the 89th day, March

17, a day before the deadline in the ruling, Dalton terminated his account.

His Missouri Ethics Commission Campaign Committee form shows Dalton claimed to

have $3,562.66 in the campaign fund at the time of termination. But that turned out to

be incorrect, maybe.

Here is how Dalton dispersed the money in his account:

Cardinal Glennon Children Foundation $1,850

The Major Case Squad $1,000

Arch Grants $ 237.41

$3,087.41

These donations seemed a little odd since Dalton claims on his Armstrong-Teasdale

AT Government Strategies bio page as of March 24, 2020 that he is still on the

board of directors of the St. Louis/Missouri Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Why wouldn’t he give a donation to the Red Cross?

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I know that he was on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross since that was

the reason I stopped giving the Red Cross donations, since they thought it was a good

idea to have a cigarette lobbyist as a director. Those donations went to the Salvation

Army.

However we checked the website of the local Red Cross chapter and found that Dalton

is no longer listed as a director.

Coming up short: Next Dalton’s math came up a little short. He claimed he had

$3,562.66 in his account in several filings. But after allegedly giving all the money away

he was $475.25 short. Here is his explanation:

This is interesting that Dalton, who controls the funds of a city of over 11,000 residents

cannot do simple math and balance his campaign account on file with the State of

Missouri.

TOWN AND COUNTRY JOINS CHESTERFIELD IN CLOSING THE CITY HLL AND

POLICE DEPARTMENT TO THE PUBLIC: Trying to keep staff from getting sick Town

and Country has joined Chesterfield in closing the City Hall, Police Department and

Longview Farmhouse to the public.

ALSO CLOSED: On Monday the director of Queeny Park announced that the dog park

would be closed until at least April 22 and maybe longer due to the COVID-19.

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However at the suggestions of several park facebook readers he is looking at doing

some grass reseeding.

Dog Park meeting of the minds.

THE DEER HUNTER: That is half of an antler retrieved by the Security Agent while on

a walk to the Weidman Road side of Queeny Park.

MONARCH FIRE PROTECTION DIST STILL HOLDING OPEN MEETINGS AT FIRE

HQ, BUT THE PUBLIC HAS TO WATCH THE MEETING ON CLOSE CIRCUIT TV IN

THE FIRE TRUCK BAYS. Here is the explanation from Rick Gans, a District Director:

We are holding open meetings with a AV feed to the engine bay, where chairs are set

up at least 6 feet apart. The public and press is invited to watch the meeting from

there. Citizen Comments are submitted via email. The Open Meeting posting

describes all of this. If you wish to have an interview with a Director, we are happy to

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accommodate via phone. Director Millner and I both attended the last Oen Meeting via

GoToMeeting Video conference and that was seen in the Boardroom and in the viewing

area in the engine bay.

These are strange times. We are trying to make things work as best we can.

Rick Gans

Director

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Christian LaFond

03/18/20 Possession of Marijuana pending Chesterfield PD

05/26/19 Moving Violation reduced to Illegal Parking Town & Country PD

Def atty; Matthew Hoffman, Monarch FPD Atty

Brett John Wagner 3rd DWI arrest in 5 ½ years

03/18/20 DWI, Open Container, Poss of Marijuana pending Chesterfield PD

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11/19/18 DWI, Careless & Impudent Involving Crash pending MO Hwy Patrol

10/01/14 DWI PG 12/09/14 Probation 40-hrs Comm Service St. Louis CO

11/23/11 Speeding $55 fine MO Hwy Patrol

04/16/11 Speeding 26 MPH over limit $255 fine MO Hwy Patrol

Natasha Dandridge rent and money problem

03/19/20 Trespassing pending Chesterfield PD

05/01/18 Court Order back rent $10,619 Not Satisfied St. Louis CO Ct

02/13/18 Court Order back rent $7,858 Not Satisfied St. Louis CO Ct

01/22/07 Jury verdict back rent $1,929 Not satisfied St. Louis CO Ct

10/10/06 Court Order to Pay Back Rent $1,329 Paid St. Louis CO Ct

08/31/06 Court Order to pay back rent of $1,350 Not satisfied St. Louis CO Ct

01/06/06 Court judgment order to pay back rent Not satisfied St. Louis City Ct

12/10/99 Court judgment order to pay $650 not satisfied St. Louis City Ct

01/24/96 Court judgment $120 back rent & eviction St. Louis City Ct.

Leon McKinney of Stifel Drive in Town and Country, MO

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MARCH 23 AND THINGS GET WEIRDER:

VIRUS SCENES:

FRIDAY FISH FRY AT ST. CULVER’S: On Friday March 20, after the County

Executive ordered restaurants to provide only take out and drive through service. All

the Catholic Churches in the area cancelled their annual Lent fish fry dinners. Culver’s

has the usual cod fish sandwich and during Lent they also have a Walleye sandwich.

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file photo

Friday March 20 photo

AT 1:40 on Friday afternoon the line for the drive through was out to Manchester Road.

Across the street the popular Joey’s B was closed.

There were three Culver’s employees meeting drivers long before the speaker to make

an order. They took orders on wireless devices and the line sped up with no long waits.

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For the next three days I mentioned to people that were at a fish fry at St. Culver’s.

Nobody figured out I was talking about the hamburger place on Manchester Road at

Sulphur Springs Rd. I guess they thought I was talking about a small parish of originally

Scots.

LET’S GO SHOPPING: On Friday it was a trip to the Des Peres Dierbergs. The salad

bar in currently suspended!

It was not that long ago that grocery stores were trying to get you to bring your own

reusable bags from home so they could save money on stocking paper or plastic bags

at the checkout registers. That changed last week.

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On Tuesday it the first “Old People Early Opening” at Costco. Costco opened at

8am just for people 60 or older. I had to pick up a prescription. We were good on the

toilet paper inventory, but could use some paper towels.

We got there at 7:45 only to already find a long line of old folks. They handed out

numbers for a very limited amount of toilet paper. You had to be there by 7:30 to get a

number.

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The line 15 minutes before the opening.

The line actually looped around shipping palettes used to try and keep a 6-foot distance

between people.

They said there was a whole pallet of paper towel packages in the store. My wife got

there at about 8 minutes after 8 o’clock and the person in front of her got the last

package.

They did not have the sneeze guard plastic up at registers and the service counter.

Instead they put up folding tables to keep a distance between employee and customer.

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NIGHT SCHOOL: Laurie Hangge runs the Town and Country Police records room.

(The large record rooms of years gone by have shrunk, in some cases to a computer

terminal in 2020) She is still going to work every day. Her kids’ school is sending

lessons home via email.

She told me she is now running a night school from 5:30 to 10. On Wednesday I asked

her how night school was going. Here is her response (It was the funniest things I saw

all day):

I’m not cut out to be a teacher. But I make them call me Mrs. Hangge.

Laurie Hangge

Elementary Night School teacher, Mrs. Hangge

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