Natural Disaster

Secor Road Paving Update - Informational Meeting

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake.hawaii/index.ht...

8.8 earthquake in Chile. Hopefully this doesn't turn out as bad as it appears...

"Robert P. Watson, Ph.D. Coordinator of American Studies
Lynn University"
Email: rwatson@lynn.edu

Letter-to-the-Editor Monroe Evening News (Feb 13)
Government’s successes exceed its failures
A new Rasmussen Reports survey shows that 45 percent of people are very angry at the government. One long-standing complaint is that government can’t do things right.

WASHINGTON- Congressman Bob Latta (R- Bowling Green) made the following statement regarding President Obama’s State of the Union Address this evening.

“Instead of focusing on creating jobs and putting Americans back to work in 2009, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid chose to focus their attention on a $1 trillion dollar health care bill, cap and trade legislation, which would be the largest energy tax levied against American families and business alike, a $1 trillion dollar “Stimulus Package,” and billions of dollars in bailouts.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 — The American Red Cross has pledged an initial $200,000 to assist communities impacted by today’s earthquake in Haiti, and is prepared to take further action as local responders assess the situation.

On Tuesday, January 12, less than one hour before sunset, a 7.3 earthquake struck Haiti near the capital of Port au Prince, causing catastrophic damage and loss of life.

· Initial estimates are that up to 3 million people may be affected.

The past few days has presented to any, and all, that follow real news in depth with something antitethical when it comes to the weather here, or, there.
1) Excessive snowfall in Valdez, AK...68" in 3 days...(18 Dec)
2)Trains stuck in "Chunnel" due to cold temperatures on the continent. Other services cancelled...(18 Dec)
3) US East Coast experiences heavy snow, near blizzard conditions. (18-19 Dec)
4) Snowfall in Nice, Fr this past week.
5) Snow to near blizzard conditions and cold in Copenhagen, Dk this week.

Greetings!

This issue of my Township Update will focus on the work and priorities of the Public Works Department - road repaving, leaf pickup, flooding/drainage, etc.

BP Pipe
The BP refinery in Oregon is going to be installing new pipeline in District 5. I don't have all the details just yet, but if you live in the neighborhood of Bellevue and points south BP will be boring the pipeline in the vicinity of the railroad tracks between Monroe and Berdan.

With Columbia Gas replacing pipe, and the Douglas Rd./475 construction (see story below), there's a lot of heavy construction going on this summer. Thank you for your patience as these improvements are completed.

Douglas Road Overpass On Schedule

Okay so 3 years including this year, 2 year pay freeze, last year 3 and a half percent increase, overtime money will be held until March 2010-you can trade for time off though...other details on WSPD at top of the hour news.

Meeting on TARTA Sales Tax Proposal

When: June 11, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Township Hall, 4927 Holland-Sylvania Road
Several months ago, TARTA officials began slowly floating out
the idea of switching the funding method for TARTA. Currently, TARTA is funded by
the property owners in 9 jurisdictions (Toledo, Perrysburg, Ottawa Hills, Waterville,
Rossford, Spencer Township, and Sylvania City and Township). Currently, they collect

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will formally present
the preliminary Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps at an Open House on
Monday April 27th, 2009, on the third floor of the AMTRAK Train
Station, Martin Luther King Plaza, 650 Vance Street from 3:30 p.m.
until 6:30 p.m. In addition to FEMA, the Ohio Department of Natural
Resources (ODNR), along with City and County officials will present
information and be available to answer questions in the open forum.

At issue, are approximately 1700 homes, most of which are located in

During the official Republican response to President Obama's address, Piyush Jindal criticized volcano monitoring, saying "While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes ... $140 million for something called 'volcano monitoring.' Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC."

The dedication and diligence of long-time township resident and property owner Penny Levine is paying off for residents of the Sylvania area. For many years residents of Sylvania Township have been treading water, but since 2008 they are now drowning.

Many education reformers are looking to lessons from New Orleans, where the city's educational landscape has been transformed since Hurricane Katrina.

The city has evolved from an ineffective and corrupt centralized school district before the storm to a kind of educational shopping mall, where parents can choose from a variety of schools.

From NBC 24: Another example of the large list of capital improvements that need tending to. These neighbors just want their basements to stop flooding. How long will it take for it to get done? Has not been done for 8 years in this neighborhood.
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TOLEDO, OHIO -- Residents on Capistrano in Toledo’s West Side are tired of their basements flooding every time it rains. So, one resident went door-to-door getting the names and addresses of more than thirty people who received flooding in a three-block radius of his home on Capistrano.

Ice storms in Kentucky have knocked out the power at Grayson county humane society and they are looking for homes and fosters to take in their animals. its too cold for these animals to be without electricity and heat.

There is supposed to be transportation to other states scheduled so if you or someone you know would like to adopt or foster one of these dogs {and probably cats, too}, contact them immediately at :

http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/KY103.html

I could not believe that someone in the City said this, but they did:

"People think they're paying [taxes] to get every street plowed and salted, but they're paying for the service we provide."

Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation's first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. "Change has come," he told a huge throng of cheering supporters.

Sam Phillips remembers the flood of 1973, when a few inches of rocks protected his Point Place house from the crashing waves of Lake Erie.

The water threatened, but it never entered his Lakeside Avenue house. Others in Point Place, though, weren't as lucky.