Speak Out 8/23/14

Tinsley needs

to be removed

Silence! This is in regard to the council meeting on Monday, Aug. 18, regarding Peter Tinsley and his Facebook post. I noticed as Mr. McDonald was passing out copies to the council members everybody was silent. No one spoke. There was dead silence for at least two or three minutes. Mr. Rushin didn't snap in there to say well, I think what Pete meant to say . . . no! He was shocked, too. Everyone was silent. I think silence should speak. Silence means guilty. He's guilty of making fun of people that are less than what he thinks they should be. Mr. Rushin said he works hard in his church. He also works hard for Mr. Becker and Mr. Scott Faughn who have a new newspaper out --The SEMO Times. Mr. Peter hangs with people, one who's a felon and one who owes the city over $200,000. Those are the type of people Tinsley hangs with and yet he's in our office as a councilman. What about closed session? Does he discuss this with Mr. Becker so Mr. Becker knows to be ready to go to work and just can't disclose anything that Tinsley might tell him. I think Ward Five should consider getting a petition together to remove Mr. Tinsley.

Tips for

Downtown

About 3 weeks ago the city council suggested that it might help for the Downtown Development group to have more activities to get continued funding, so here are a couple of suggestions. They might enlist the help of Master Gardeners and the garden clubs and develop a crepe myrtle festival. Extend planting into Clinton Park where a number of activities take place, bring crepe myrtle plantings into the downtown area and get with homeowners and do planting along Main Street to Barron Road. Use activities that already take place in July and August such as the County Fair with a few of their own. Print a list of activities for the festival on a home computer, on a single folded leaflet and at the end dedicate it to Riley Mathias, the Master Gardener emeritus who worked for years for the Highway Beautification Projects.

A historical house or house museum does things for the community that no other historical house can do. It shows visitors to the community what it was like in Poplar Bluff a hundred years ago and it shows all visitors what style of furniture was common and it shows anyone thinking of buying a house some of the rewards of going historical. So my second suggestion is for the Downtown group to try to find a few people similar to the group that renovated the depot, to consider obtaining and opening a historical house. Every town this size has one. Cape has one, Jackson has one, New Madrid has one and Charleston has the Moore Home. Poplar Bluff lost three houses over a hundred years old last year alone. It lost a Victorian house on Garfield with square Victorian brackets on the lower half, a block away from the Wheatley Historical District, it lost a house on Cherry Street that Mrs. Gamblin, a local historian, said had been brought to the site by teams of horses after the tornado destroyed the one original to the site, and it lost a 2 story brick home between Pine and Vine Street about 50 yards from the marker designating the area, old town. This speaks volumes about wvhat Poplar Bluff thinks of its history.

Paper carrier

is a moron

I'd like to know if the person that delivers my paper is a moron or a drunk? He brought me a paper today that's two weeks old. Where in the world did he get one that's two weeks old? What the h--- is going on?