Let me start today by thanking the people who filled in for me the past three months. I was able often to wake up early and listen on www.kvoe.com and can attest my helpers really did offer some very intriguing things to think about.
Upon returning it’s good to note many positive things going on in our community.
Saturday I had a chance meeting with new ESU President Allison Garrett at the Trussler Sports Complex. She was positive about things at the school but admitted she was happy the dire predictions for revenue shortfall in Kansas in March were exaggerated. She’s learning about counting on public financing even in the last quarter of the year!
Flint Hill Technical College held an Open House on Saturday and listening to reports on KVOE I learned this great institution isn’t standing still. It’s growing and continues to address the needs of our area.
How about the United Way? While we were gone they wrapped another record Drive under the leadership of Stuart Symmonds and of course Jami Reever. Over $620 thousand pledged – another great job!
Bobbi and I were lucky to spend the winter in Palm Desert, California which is located in the Coachella Valley which is located about 100 miles from both Los Angeles and San Diego.
The area is a retreat for senior citizens with the population growing to over 650,000 during the winter.
This year we discovered an amazing part of the Valley called the San Andreas Fault. It is over 800 miles long. Our guide on a Jeep tour told us there are two plates – the Pacific and the Northern American and they are moving in opposite directions with the fault in between. He likened it to an Oreo cookie with the goo in the middle being the fault.
On our tour we actually drove into the fault even though there are no roads only crevices created by flash floods over many years. Our tour of the San Andreas Fault was the highlight of our stay.
