Tonight at the Culver Town Council meeting the Culver-Union Township Fire Department (CUTFD) received permission to purchase a Neoteric Hover Craft. For those of you interested in some specs, here you go. These are from the Neoteric website: This is a nearly new rescue hovercraft, with only 8 hours of operation. The craft has inline seating for four, and comes with a siren, PA system, 400,000 cp searchlight, red and blue LED light bar, rescue lift system, and stretcher mount. The engine is a 65 HP model with fuel and oil injection.
Personally I was more interested in what they’re going to call the fire fighters that are going to be trained to drive this puppy. After the meeting I suggested the “Air Heads” which Fire Chief Mike seemed to like, but the more I think about it, I think there should be a town wide contest to name the team. As I cautioned Mike, “If you don’t come up with a good name, there will soon be one and it might not be what you want.”
To get the ball started, here are a few off the top of my head:
Okay, so do you have a better idea? Enter yours in the comments if you like.
I’m often accused of being a Bah-Humbug about Christmas because I get tired of it starting so early. Well this morning I kind of felt like my pumpkin friend here when I drove through town and saw the Christmas lights up on the streets and several of the stores that had already “Decked the Halls”. It’s Halloween today for Heaven’s Sake! Ooooooo… Scary red and white twinkling Christmas Bells on all the street lights! Isn’t that going to be nice for this evening’s Trick or Treating.
I was reminded that the Chamber is sponsoring “Christmas in Culver” next weekend, November 4th & 5th. Of course they are… I guess Thanksgiving went right out the window. Okay, I know how important Christmas sales are to retail merchants, but really??? What’s next? Maybe we should do “Christmas in Culver” over Labor Day weekend. You know we want to catch those Lake People before they leave for the winter…
I guess this saves time. We’ve been so busy this Fall that we didn’t get any Halloween decorations up. Now that I know we can just skip to Christmas I don’t feel so bad. Pretty soon we’ll all be like the people that we used to make fun of. You know, the ones that left their Christmas decorations up all year around? Ha! They were just ahead of the curve!
Apparently September 6th is Fight Procrastination Day. I was going to look that up and write something about it, but I didn’t get around to it. Oh, well…