CEDARHILL

The Hiesler....AGAIN!

I was standing in my kitchen tonight when I heard the distinctive hoot of the steam engine and hopped in my car to find it. They were pulling out of the station on another "practice" run....this time with several cars attached, in preparation for this weekends' unveiling of the Engine. Nearly 30 other people had heard the hoot as well and cars and cameras converged! This will be such a draw for our little town...and it is enough to make a train person out of just about anybody.  Deb had just completed a photo shoot and was ALSO taking pics. This is a shot of me talking to Steve (who actually owns the Engine)...standing with Earl and Sue, who are both engineers and qualified to run a steam engine.  They have invited me aboard tomorrow morning to ride with them for awhile so i can get a story for this next edition!  Wow...what a town i live in!

Intrepid Rafting Reporters

 
Nephew Eric and his good friend Mike are in Globe (from Ohio) for a few days of adventure in Globe over Spring Break. Next they head to Las Vegas, but I get them for 2 days!...

I had forgotten that it was Mike and his dad that I had rafted with on the Ohio Pile several years ago and so i asked them if they wanted to raft the SALT RIVER.   But Of Course!. I actually was able to get them set up on a full day trip for today as reporters for the Globe Miami Times. Complete with a set of questions to ask, my small camera and a tape recorder, they are to "get the story" for my next edition of the paper ....coming out in just 8  days.

Eric has a 2nd degree burn on his hand, so we wrapped it and put a rubbermaid glove on and he was good to go!

Paper went to press!

The Summer Edition finally went to press on Tuesday morning. I don't realize how much of my daily life is consumed by putting the paper together until I awake to a full day without all the "to do"s that come with this venture. But I can say, I always feel the effort is worth it. I enjoy every aspect of this business; from coming up with fun ways to present a business (like the ad we did for Kim's), to discovering cool things about this community that i didn't know about (like the Sports Hall of Fame in Miami). I even like crawling in the big Penske truck, I rent each quarter to distribute the paper. Guy will be helping me again on Friday for the 12 hours it takes to distribute over 6000 pounds of paper. I got us both t-shirts from Rusty Buffalo so we will "match."

But today is sort-a down time for me. Alittle accounting work and FILING!. God! what I'd give for a file clerk. I don't know that I need a salesperson, a secretary or a business manager. I do need a file clerk.