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- Tim Hortons Arrives in Romeo
When they first started building on the corner of M-53 & 32 Mile Road I hoped that they would either open a Starbucks or Tim Hortons at that location. The latter was realized this week.
For those outside of the upper Midwest or eastern Canada, Tim Hortons is a donut and coffee chain co-founded by Toronto [...]
- New sidewalk
This isn’t the greatest picture, but it does show something very cool here at la casa de McLane. Our front walkway was a bit of a hazard. The concrete had shifted and was more of a hill than a nice entry point.
Well, some friends from church came over and hooked us up. I got to [...]
- Mark Twain on School Boards
Monday night welcomes the resumption Romeo’s Monday Night Football with the regular meeting of the Romeo Board of Education.
In light of that, fellow youth worker Grahame Knox sent me this quote:
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
Thanks for the quote Grahame. I don’t [...]
- Solutions for Snow Days?
Romeo was not alone in canceling school today. My opinion on snow days and dirt roads is well documented and tiresome. The effects on commerce and families is obvious.
So let’s talk solutions.
This is Michigan. We are a state surrounded on three sides by Canada and the Great Lakes. Winter weather shouldn’t effect commerce and education [...]
- Quick notes from the Romeo School Board Meeting
Our superintendent, Joe Beck, did a great job during this meeting. (Over all I’d give him an A for his work tonight.) In particular, I felt he did a great job answering a ladies question about a school bus issue. The lady is asking for him to answer in public things that he doesn’t know [...]
- Romeo School Board Agenda Out: Someone Lied
On February 11th, I sat in on the school board meeting. About 3 hours into it a “very serious accusation” [to quote board member Jennifer White] was made against Sue Hier, Board of Education president.
As the majority of board members, supporters of Mrs. Hier, scrambled to react and table the discussion as quickly as possible… [...]
- Too Cold for Education
Satire warning. Perhaps I have heard this incorrectly, but Romeo Community Schools is now has to make up two days of school. They banked 3 days for the 2007-2008 school year and they have now used 5.
***Correction: I have since learned that they get 30 hours of snow days per school year. Romeo has now [...]
