I am busy with some projects, one of them being my trip to Concord, New Hampshire to attend an assertiveness training program. Many of my friends have urged me to attend this program because of my shyness. So hopefully I will come back in a few days and be a little more assertive than I am now.

I guess the Cheshire Police Departments’ “Slowdown Days” program is a big success. Just on the first day alone, several of my friends received tickets and one got her car towed. Whatever. As for me, I actually am trying to drive 25 mph. It is amazing how SLOW it really is. I had a passsenger in the car on Mountain Road today where I saw three Police cars ( I did see a car being towed) .I wonder if that was my friends car. But I also saw another car being towed earlier in the morning in front of TD Banknorth. That could have been her car also. Maybe she got towed twice who knows.

Our community is discussing this issue with the Town Clerk’s office. I am not. (I will be posting and discussing information about prevailing wage. Hmm. Do you wonder what that is. I will soon be informing the people in Cheshire, especially the people who run this town what it is.) Especially the ones who wanted their fingers to do the walking about how someone was spending their time at work). Being from Bridgeport, believe me, this Town Clerk issue is an ant on the bass without the b.

I remember when I worked for the Bridgeport, (now Connecticut Post) that believe it or not, without me not being on the paper anymore, is still one of the best. I had to go to the Town Clerk’s office to get the latest property transfers. Now Bridgeport, where I was born and lived many years of my extremely young life, has a Town Clerk and a City Clerk. Don’t ask what the City Clerks office does. I think they deal mostly with the Mayors office and the Common Council, Bridgeport’s livelier version of our Town Council. Believe me, I saw my share of fights at those meetings. That is what I miss about not living in Bridgeport!

I remember sitting in the Town Clerk’s office one day, collecting the information I needed to bring back to the paper, when the phone rang and someone in the office asked me if I would mind answering the phone! Someone called in with a tax question. I had to put the person on hold, get a hold of someone in the office to answer this persons question, get back on the phone with the person and give this persons their answer. This went on for at least an hour. And you thought you were short-staffed at your job! I am glad I wasn’t in the Mayors office. Could you imagine?

I am receiving video from people who are fed up with people driving through stop signs. I hope to be posting this shortly. Talking about Bridgeport brought back a lot of memories for me. People were lively. They still are. Maybe some people in our community should take heed of the advice my dad used to say every once in a while: “Move before they throw dirt on you.”