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FLICK LITE. The latest listings, as offered by the readers and your own resident Lite Boy:
Latest sign of the times
As appears the message on a restaurant marquee along Neil Street in Champaign:
“NOW HIRING PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP”
Newest coincidence winner
Is it irony that when one renews a gun license in Illinois, the renewal forms and money are sent to a Springfield address … on Winchester Road?
Top anxiety-relieving event
Among the events at this year’s Autumnal Festival 2021, a charity event sponsored by the Illinois State University Horticulture Center in Normal …
“Rotten Fruit Throwing”
As one attendee put it, “With the state of the world today, what a more suitable way to get rid of some of the frustration.”
Latest greatest phone call
We all get spam calls. Rich Plotkin got one recently that got him to look twice, after he looked down to see the caller identified as “St. John Paul II,” as in Pope John Paul II.
It must have been a long-distance call, too — Pope John Paul II died in 2005.
October’s bumper-sticker snicker
(As spotted along I-80)
“Don’t believe everything you think”
Newest vacation `huh?’
You know how a sign makes sense if you live in a place and know of its reason but maybe not if you don’t?
Becky and Rob Mentzer of Bloomington recently were crossing into Alabama from Florida on Route 231 when they wheeled into a rest area, pulled up to a parking spot and encountered a sign.
“PLACE WATERMELON RINDS HERE,” read the permanently-planted, professionally printed sign.
“We’re still trying to wrap our heads around that sign ...” chuckles Becky.
Best Name Club
— Les Siron. A now retired Bloomington firefighter.
— Ethan Allen. Sells furniture at Furniture Row in Normal.
— Jake Slaughter. One of the standouts on Bloomington Central Catholic High’s football team.
— Justin Bowling. President of the Bloomington-Normal Officials Association.
— A.J. Loss. Project manager for a company that recently decided not to build a Trails East project in Normal.
— Steve Fast. Recently announced plans for Heartland Community College’s 2021 Harvest 5K race.
Newest example of a strong belief in marriage
We’d have to consider Myrna Eileen Cable who has passed at age 95.
As listed in her obituary, the Bloomington woman first married in August 1946. After losing that husband, Mryna married again in 1964. After losing that husband, she married again in 1974. After losing that husband, she married again in 1992. After losing that husband, she married again in 2011. He passed in 2018.
Kindest gesture
You might remember Ellen Laesch, of the legendary Bloomington-Normal dairy family that more recently has been ravaged by five deaths due to ALS.
In wake of her family’s story in this paper, among the many to contribute to the area’s ALS Association, one Twin City contributor donated $500.
More Fun Places To Visit, If Only For Their Names
(Offered by the readers)
— Left Hand, West Virginia.
— Enough, Missouri.
— Tick Bite, North Carolina.
Newest `sign’ of climate change?
Going out of style are those simple “Slippery When Wet” road signs.
Along 1500 North near El Paso, a sign has been upgraded with a far more stern advisory.
“WHEN FLOODED,
TURN AROUND,
DON’T DROWN”
Most appropriate occurrence
When Rivian, the new-age automaker, rolled out its very first electric-powered truck, it was first driven upon Electric Avenue, the street next to the automotive plant in Normal.
Latest sight to make you go “hmmm” ...
On a recent trip to Florida for Midwest Food Bank, Dave Grieder noticed in Kentucky a shooting range / gun store on one side of the highway and a funeral home on the other.
“Is that just a coincidence or location, location, location?” asks Dave
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