In some ways, the summer season begins this week with the All-City Garage Sale. Even though school is still in session and we have large temperature and weather swings, spring and early summer are arriving.
The sale runs on Saturday, and it is always a busy day in the community. This year, downtown businesses are also holding their own Spring Fling promotion, and other businesses are planning promotions to coincide with the chamber’s All-City Garage Sale. Finally, the city of Annandale holds its appliance and tire drop-off day at the Public Works Building – a fantastic opportunity for city dwellers to get rid of old stuff.
It looks like the weather will be excellent on Saturday. See all the sales on page 3A, have fun garage saling and shopping, and watch out for pedestrians.
Fishing opener and Mother’s Day are also around the corner. Then it’s graduation, and soon it will be June, and we will be talking about the hot weather.
■ It’s nice to see movement on Annandale’s future recreation park, as was reported in last week’s Advocate. This has been a long process, but it appears this project may become a reality. Keith Jerpseth noted that the hope was to move some dirt this year, but even though that might not come to pass, some key funding for the project is starting to come into place.
What’s nice about a project like this is that it will directly or indirectly affect just about everyone in the community. Our families with young children deserve good facilities.
Those of us older folks often talk about the past in some romantic way. We want to "go back to the old days" and want things the way they used to be, when in truth, most of the time, we just wish we were younger.
Sure, we survived teeter-toters, monkey bars and in some cases worse, although looking back we’re not sure how we got through it all. We survived sub-par ball fields that were decent back in the day, and concrete bathrooms that had replaced out-houses. Most of those "good old days" are now distant memories. Sure, they were OK, probably the best the collective community could do back then. But we must keep moving foward, expecting better, progressing. It’s great to see movement on this issue.