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What’s going on with Urbank sewer work?
Published Saturday, July 5, 2008
Can someone, with the slightest semblance of a brain, in Otter Tail County or anywhere in the state of Minnesota, inform the residents of Urbank of what the screaming devil is going on with the "Ringling Bros." city sewer project?
This farce began at the end of September 2007, with a projected completion date of Nov. 15, 2007. So far, I am told that two extensions have been granted with a projected completion date of probably sometime during Armageddon!
We lost our home mailbox deliveries for the entire fall season of 2007 to the county road, had normal mail delivery during the winter, then lost it again in the early spring of this year.
Vehicles traveling on Eastern Avenue create a dust storm similar to those in the Saudi Arabian desert and soon we'll all have to be clad in the wrappings of the Saudis, all body parts covered but the eyes, and our addresses will be changed to "Middle Eastern Avenue"!
The EPA, which required this city sewer circus, seems to have traded-off clean air for it and Urbank has become the poster city for the importance of the American Lung Association.
No one needs to be concerned about second-hand smoke here.
We can't keep our windows and doors open during a work day and can't hang our laundry out to dry. Ten hours a day, four days a week, we can observe adult men playing in the dirt with their Tonka trucks and scratching their heads in question.
When the one person who is supposed to keep the residents of Urbank apprised of the status of this dog-and-pony show is approached and questioned, the response is: "I can't wait to get out of this town and move to Alexandria!"
If no one has any pertinent information regarding the status of theinstallation of this "Alaskan Pipeline," I suppose we could ask the Magic 8 Ball or Ouija Board as a last resort.
I wonder if the U.S. Military could spare us some of their gas masks until Hades freezes over?
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Judith Lawson - Urbank
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